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I know people are gonna freak out about the AI part in this.
But as a person with hearing difficulties this would be revolutionary. So much shit I usually just can’t watch because open subtitles doesn’t have any subtitles for it.
Yeah, transcription is one of the only good uses for LLMs imo. Of course they can still produce nonsense, but bad subtitles are better none at all.
Just an important note, speech to text models aren't LLMs, which are literally "conversational" or "text generation from other text" models. Things like https://github.com/openai/whisper are their own, separate types of models, specifically for transcription.
That being said, I totally agree, accessibility is an objectively good use for "AI"
That's not what LLMs are, but it's a marketing buzzword in the end I guess. What you linked is a transformer based sequence-to-sequence model, exactly the same principal as ChatGPT and all the others.
I wouldn't say it is a good use of AI, more like one of the few barely acceptable ones. Can we accept lies and hallucinations just because the alternative is nothing at all? And how much energy/CO2 emissions should we be willing to waste on this?