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Why doesn't youtube have something like this built in.

• madduci 3y ago
  I guess it's computationally expensive? OP states in the website that their solution takes 1 hour of processing for 30 minutes long videos . Now imagine offering this for all the YouTube videos available: - either it's done on their servers (hard to believe due to high costs) - either it's done on client side (which is also difficult, due to lack of processing power)
  • leobg 3y ago
    Well, I'm also shamefully unoptimized at the moment. YouTube added auto-captions years ago. Long before there was Whisper, let alone things like Whisper.cpp. I imagine what I'm doing now is computationally no more expensive than what they did back then.
• Freak_NL 3y ago
  And automatically forced on every user depending on whatever their Google account is set to, just like the video titles which now get auto-translated without any way to turn this off. We're sliding back into a monolingual world. No thanks.
  • leobg 3y ago
    As a native German, I also resent it when Google/Amazon/whoever tries to force a translation on me when I prefer the original language. So I wouldn't want to live in a world where everything would be dubbed into German for me. Not even if they used my tool :) Regarding YouTube: AFAIK, YouTube allows you to add multi-lingual voice tracks to your videos. Then, if the viewer has a preferred language set, the video will play in that language. Else in the language inferred by his browser/OS. But the user can also switch back to the original language, or any other language, right in the player.
    • Freak_NL 3y ago
      You can't switch to original titles though, so I'm not really confident Google is going to be offering this option for long.