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Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI

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Re: Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI

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Post by surfingdino »

Kiro wrote: post #13
vouaobrasil wrote: post #2

Unlike other methods of automation, AI is replacing human beings too fast. And before you say, "new jobs will be created" -- look at history. After the computer, new jobs have been created, but what kind of jobs? Every year, we are becoming more entwined in wage slavery as the wealth accumulates at the top and jobs become more meaningless. So, no, new jobs will not be created, except the kind of jobs that crush the h…

Strange submission to post this comment on. It's not like translating and dubbing videos is the highest form of labor.

There is finesse to it. You are translating from one culture to another.

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Post by notkaiho »

Kiro wrote: post #13
vouaobrasil wrote: post #2

Unlike other methods of automation, AI is replacing human beings too fast. And before you say, "new jobs will be created" -- look at history. After the computer, new jobs have been created, but what kind of jobs? Every year, we are becoming more entwined in wage slavery as the wealth accumulates at the top and jobs become more meaningless. So, no, new jobs will not be created, except the kind of jobs that crush the h…

Strange submission to post this comment on. It's not like translating and dubbing videos is the highest form of labor.

Have you tried? It's a genuine "skilled labour" job, both the translation and the voice acting.

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Post by numpad0 »

vouaobrasil wrote: post #2

Unlike other methods of automation, AI is replacing human beings too fast. And before you say, "new jobs will be created" -- look at history. After the computer, new jobs have been created, but what kind of jobs? Every year, we are becoming more entwined in wage slavery as the wealth accumulates at the top and jobs become more meaningless. So, no, new jobs will not be created, except the kind of jobs that crush the h…

I don't think generative AI is replacing humans at all. It's like how SQL replaced software engineers, with added bonus of copyright doubts gatekeeping common folks from exploiting it. It's obviously killing open Internet fast and encouraging power concentration too. It's worst of couples of worlds.

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Post by BoredPositron »

notkaiho wrote: post #22
Kiro wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strange submission to post this comment on. It's not like translating and dubbing videos is the highest form of labor.

Have you tried? It's a genuine "skilled labour" job, both the translation and the voice acting.

In which country? Germany and France put some effort in and it’s still not great most of the time but most languages dub only in 1 or 2 voices for all characters. Just look at the ridiculous long credits of Netflix shows.

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Post by Kiro »

wongarsu wrote: post #15
Kiro wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Strange submission to post this comment on. It's not like translating and dubbing videos is the highest form of labor.

It's not like it's mindless drudgery either. Losing as little as possible in translation while fitting within the constraints of subtitles (people can only read so fast) can be very challenging. And decent dubbing tries to approximately match the mouth movements, which puts further constraints on the translation and often requires creative text changes. There is a point about industry size (not that many countries du…

Translation work is often associated with horrible working conditions and poor pay. It definitely fits OP's description of "jobs that crush the human spirit into oblivion." This might not be the case if you're a renowned translator of famous literature, but that is not representative of the majority of translators.

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Post by yieldcrv »

netsharc wrote: post #12

Huh, if it's good enough, movies/TV shows dubbed with AI-clone of the original voice would be great (if we can ignore the ethics of using the actor's voice and the loss of work for the dubbing companies and actors). For example here's how weird Friends is in German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCoNSZV--z0 . Or Italian: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wO5qTzvyQ1s Can AI detect the emotional tone of sentences yet,…

Yes, have you used OpenAI’s voice model? It uses and reacts to tones

My favorite conversation has been getting it to tell me about marshmallow vs marshmellow spelling and pronunciation, it became very strict but patient with me

It can reply in other languages too, but I cant detect dialect as well to say

Re: Open-source tool translates and dubs videos into other languages using AI

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Post by sam_perez »

cubbic wrote: post #4

Oh I made something similar but for Netflix! https://github.com/cubbK/dubbing_ai_netflix_client I want to learn swedish and because there are so few dubbed movies in Swedish I take the subtitles(Netflix is good at having subtitles in different languages) and text-to-speech it :)

How would you rate the quality of the dubs?

Do you think it's usable for learning? Seems like you could end up with some quirky learnings.

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