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>>tablet+(OP)
Machine translation and speech recognition. The state of the art for these is a multi-modal language model. I'm hearing impaired veering on deaf, and I use this technology all day every day. I wanted to watch an old TV series from the 1980s. There are no subtitles available. So I fed the show into a language model (Whisper) and now I have passable subtitles that allow me to watch the show.

Am I the only one who remembers when that was the stuff of science fiction? It was not so long ago an open question if machines would ever be able to transcribe speech in a useful way. How quickly we become numb to the magic.

>>retrac+J
I feel you. In the late 00's/early 10's, downloading and getting American movies were fairly easy but getting the subtitles was a challenge. It was even worse with movies from other regions. Even now I know people that record conversations to be replayed using Whisper so they can get 100% the info from it.

Disclaimer: I'm not praising piracy but outside of US borders is a free for all.