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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
Old TV series should have closed captions available (which are apparently different from subtitles), however the question of where to obtain aside from VHS copies them might be difficult.

>>dmonit+b2
And of course, a lot of modern "dvd players" do not properly transmit closed captions as subtitles over HDMI, so that sure isn't helping

A slightly off topic but interesting video about this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSCOQ6vnLwU