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1. Prompt it to extract the audio track, then give it to a speech-to-text API, translate it to another language, then make it add it back to the video file as a subtitle track.

2. Retrain the model to where it does this implcitly when you say "hey can you add Portuguese subtitles to this for me"?



I don't have words for how much this seems like a relatively trivial thing to do now, and 1 year ago I would have laughed at someone if they suggested this was a possibility in 5 years

I'm feeling a mixture of feelings that I can't begin to describe


The Star Trek computer is here! :-)


But not the Star Trek economy / elimination of money. So some of us will starve while we get there. :(


Well said. It so easy to take for granted all these tech milestones with generative AI in particular the last year.


"Falling forward into a future unknown"


no retraining may be necessary, this is a common enough ffmpeg task I wouldn't be surprised it can do it right now as a one-shot prompt.

what a time to be alive!


holding on to my papers fr fr





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