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I wrote this Telegram bot that translates any video with AI-generated subtitles in about 2 minutes. You paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram link, pick your la

I wrote this Telegram bot that translates any video with AI-generated subtitles in about 2 minutes. You paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram link, pick your language, and get back the video with burned-in subtitles. It started because my wife watches Chinese dramas and new episodes never have subtitles for our language. Turns out thousands of people have the same problem — Arabic speakers watching anime, Russian speakers following Turkish series, Persian speakers catching up on K-dramas. Supports 40+ languages, works with any video link or direct file upload. There's also a Mini App inside Telegram for a more visual experience. https://t.me/subly1bot https://t.me/subly1bot & https://subly.xyz https://subly.xyz

sunnybeetroot 7mo ago
Hey this looks cool but wanted to highlight a bug. I opened the bot, tapped on sample video and I got the “translating a sample Turkish drama…” message twice. Then it said “your first translation is ready” so I press view in the app and the recent list shows the duplication. It says the first one is ready but the second was in progress. I close the app and see a “our whale friend is gathering video” with a progress bar. So I guess it’s not ready? Then I get a failure message which looks like the second video failed? Anyway, cool idea but it seems buggy and I think the app UX could be simplified, good luck!
- do_anh_tu 7mo ago
  Thanks for your report, I will try to fix it asap :D Please open the mini app inside the bot, it has much better UI.
aix1 7mo ago
This looks cool, but what I'd really like is a self-hosted version that I could use to auto-subtitle videos I already have locally. This would help my language learning a great deal. If any of you have already figured out a tool/workflow for this, I'd love to learn from your experience.
- aix1 7mo ago
  This thread prompted me to look into this. It seems that all I need is a thin wrapper around whisper-ctranslate2. So I wrote one and am playing with it right now. I'm finding language auto-detection to be a bit wonky (for example, it repeatedly identified Ladykracher audio as English instead of German). I ended up having to force a language instead. The only show in my library where this approach doesn't work is Parlement[1], but I can live with that. On the whole this is looking quite promising. Thanks for the idea. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_(TV_series)
shloim 7mo ago
Cool! I built a similar bot a year ago, mostly for adding subtitles for short videos within telegram, to follow news from around the world. Blog post here: https://medium.com/data-science-collective/breaking-language-barriers-how-i-built-a-video-translation-telegram-bot-in-one-hour-db739db429f4 https://medium.com/data-science-collective/breaking-language... Check it out here: https://t.me/ktuvitbot https://t.me/ktuvitbot

sunnybeetroot 7mo ago

Hey this looks cool but wanted to highlight a bug. I opened the bot, tapped on sample video and I got the “translating a sample Turkish drama…” message twice. Then it said “your first translation is ready” so I press view in the app and the recent list shows the duplication. It says the first one is ready but the second was in progress. I close the app and see a “our whale friend is gathering video” with a progress bar. So I guess it’s not ready? Then I get a failure message which looks like the second video failed? Anyway, cool idea but it seems buggy and I think the app UX could be simplified, good luck!

do_anh_tu 7mo ago
Thanks for your report, I will try to fix it asap :D Please open the mini app inside the bot, it has much better UI.

aix1 7mo ago

This looks cool, but what I'd really like is a self-hosted version that I could use to auto-subtitle videos I already have locally. This would help my language learning a great deal. If any of you have already figured out a tool/workflow for this, I'd love to learn from your experience.

aix1 7mo ago
This thread prompted me to look into this. It seems that all I need is a thin wrapper around whisper-ctranslate2. So I wrote one and am playing with it right now. I'm finding language auto-detection to be a bit wonky (for example, it repeatedly identified Ladykracher audio as English instead of German). I ended up having to force a language instead. The only show in my library where this approach doesn't work is Parlement[1], but I can live with that. On the whole this is looking quite promising. Thanks for the idea. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_(TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_(TV_series)

shloim 7mo ago

Cool! I built a similar bot a year ago, mostly for adding subtitles for short videos within telegram, to follow news from around the world. Blog post here: https://medium.com/data-science-collective/breaking-language-barriers-how-i-built-a-video-translation-telegram-bot-in-one-hour-db739db429f4 https://medium.com/data-science-collective/breaking-language... Check it out here: https://t.me/ktuvitbot https://t.me/ktuvitbot