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kulahan 2 hours ago [-]
I have no idea what’s going on, but modern subtitles are suddenly TRASH. All kinds of misheard words, it really feels like they removed all human oversight, or reduced it so significantly it’s just impossible to actually read it all for whatever crew works on this.
I only glanced through capabilities, so apologies if I simply missed this, but I am begging you to ensure there is some kind of system for translating foreign text on screen - most ideally, in a slightly differentiated font.
So often someone is walking by a sign in some other language, and their comments on it are translated, but the sign is not! I just watched Sai on Netflix, and it changes to a bright red screen with white text near the end of most episodes. I think it’s introducing the credits but I have no idea. It was just 30 seconds of Japanese text.
rvanderlinden 1 hours ago [-]
Misheard words is something that Overtone fixes. But it can't fix all, in some cases audio mix and pronunciation are so bad that it's genuinely hard even for a human in their native language to understand. Music also messes up speech-to-text models.
Unfortunately translation of (on-screen) text wasn't built into Overtone. This is something both Netflix and Disney are very aware of, and they already create multiple visual versions of content. On both platforms you can trigger a different visual language version by changing your UI language. Disney movies are most known for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzL7UYyAeg
They use the IMF format to transport content with "overlays" for different languages. In those languages certain frames are swapped out for a translated version. So that an EXIT sign is seamlessly translated to a SALIDA sign in Spanish for example.
Simpler way to do this is forced narrative captions. They are basically a separate captions track to only translate stuff like the on-screen sign you mention. This is combined with regular captions. Netflix turns them on by default I believe, and on Apple TV+ it's called "auto" captions.
The core problem is that AI isn't yet able to do everything. There's a race to the bottom going on for translation companies and things won't get better until AI gets better probably. Companies like Netflix and Disney still spend good money to get high-quality captions, but smaller ones don't unfortunately. Best thing for you to do might be to message the provider so they at least know that people are unhappy.
I only glanced through capabilities, so apologies if I simply missed this, but I am begging you to ensure there is some kind of system for translating foreign text on screen - most ideally, in a slightly differentiated font.
So often someone is walking by a sign in some other language, and their comments on it are translated, but the sign is not! I just watched Sai on Netflix, and it changes to a bright red screen with white text near the end of most episodes. I think it’s introducing the credits but I have no idea. It was just 30 seconds of Japanese text.
Unfortunately translation of (on-screen) text wasn't built into Overtone. This is something both Netflix and Disney are very aware of, and they already create multiple visual versions of content. On both platforms you can trigger a different visual language version by changing your UI language. Disney movies are most known for this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxzL7UYyAeg
They use the IMF format to transport content with "overlays" for different languages. In those languages certain frames are swapped out for a translated version. So that an EXIT sign is seamlessly translated to a SALIDA sign in Spanish for example.
Simpler way to do this is forced narrative captions. They are basically a separate captions track to only translate stuff like the on-screen sign you mention. This is combined with regular captions. Netflix turns them on by default I believe, and on Apple TV+ it's called "auto" captions.
The core problem is that AI isn't yet able to do everything. There's a race to the bottom going on for translation companies and things won't get better until AI gets better probably. Companies like Netflix and Disney still spend good money to get high-quality captions, but smaller ones don't unfortunately. Best thing for you to do might be to message the provider so they at least know that people are unhappy.