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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 started watching Leverage, the TV show, on Amazon, and the subtitles in the early series are clearly AI generated or just bad by default.

I use subtitles because I don’t want to micromanage the volume on my TV when adverts are forced on me and they are 100x louder than than what I was watching.