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by xiii1408 1613 days ago
There's also the problem of content which doesn't have subtitles to begin with---YouTube's automatic subtitle generation is great, but could be improved and expanded to languages other than English.
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> YouTubes auto mathy subtitle gen ration is grate

FTFY

Nah, it's better than that. But it doesn't recognize sentences, and a word appears at a time.
Sadly, they seem instead to have been recently removing this functionality (as well as auto-translation of those).
It is expanded, at least to Japanese. What's also fun is you can then have it auto translate the auto generated subs. The results are... not typically great, but the potential!
A long time ago, I tried the "autosub" feature with anime and it replaced understanding with unintentional (dry) humour. The output had phrases that resembled a news transcript, which is probably what they were training the system on.