Any App to dynamically create subtitles in real time


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I recently got a Manhattan "Freely" puck box which is brilliant -- and what seems great is that some subtitles are generated in real time while you are watching if you want subtitles. For example there's a channel called Talking Pictures TV which has really old classic TV and movies from the earlier days of TV and cinema long before things like subtitles were even heard of - and it's a tiny very niche channel so wouldn't have the staff or resources to create / licence etc subtitle creation so there must be some sort of A.I in the Manhattan Freely box generating these. To turn off simply press the subtitle button on the handset.

To anybody buying these though -- one slight flaw -- there's no SKY NEWS app on this -- not sure why or maybe an update is coming but the puck is brilliant if you want to watch all local UK available terrestial channels for ZILCH ( inc the huge archive on BBC iPlayer) -- although how that doesn't get in problems with UK TV licensing authority -- no idea -- "don't ask don't tell;" !!!wherever you are on the planet without a need either for using a VPN.

I'll be testing this in China (Shanghai) in a couple of weeks as I'm visiting for a while -- it works in the USA as I've already tried it there in Santa Monica CA.

Cheers
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I use Video to SRT which converts video and audio files into subtitles and readable transcripts using on-device AI. Everything runs locally on your PC for privacy: no cloud uploads, no accounts, no subscriptions.

apps.microsoft.com

Video to SRT - Download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store

Video to SRT converts video and audio files into subtitles and readable transcripts using on-device AI. Everything runs locally on your PC for privacy: no cloud uploads, no accounts, no subscriptions. Export formats: - SRT (Subtitles) - VTT (Web captions) - TXT (Clean transcript) Caption...
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jimbo45 said:
Hi folks
I recently got a Manhattan "Freely" puck box which is brilliant -- and what seems great is that some subtitles are generated in real time while you are watching if you want subtitles. For example there's a channel called Talking Pictures TV which has really old classic TV and movies from the earlier days of TV and cinema long before things like subtitles were even heard of - and it's a tiny very niche channel so wouldn't have the staff or resources to create / licence etc subtitle creation so there must be some sort of A.I in the Manhattan Freely box generating these. To turn off simply press the subtitle button on the handset.

To anybody buying these though -- one slight flaw -- there's no SKY NEWS app on this -- not sure why or maybe an update is coming but the puck is brilliant if you want to watch all local UK available terrestial channels for ZILCH ( inc the huge archive on BBC iPlayer) -- although how that doesn't get in problems with UK TV licensing authority -- no idea -- "don't ask don't tell;" !!!wherever you are on the planet without a need either for using a VPN.

I'll be testing this in China (Shanghai) in a couple of weeks as I'm visiting for a while -- it works in the USA as I've already tried it there in Santa Monica CA.

Cheers
jimbo
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The BBC licence is essentially an honesty system and most Brits do not abuse it.
 

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I use Video to SRT which converts video and audio files into subtitles and readable transcripts using on-device AI. Everything runs locally on your PC for privacy: no cloud uploads, no accounts, no subscriptions.

apps.microsoft.com

Video to SRT - Download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store

Video to SRT converts video and audio files into subtitles and readable transcripts using on-device AI. Everything runs locally on your PC for privacy: no cloud uploads, no accounts, no subscriptions. Export formats: - SRT (Subtitles) - VTT (Web captions) - TXT (Clean transcript) Caption...
apps.microsoft.com
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Subtitle Edit is a superior solution for generating subtitles from audio, and it's free.
 

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Hairy Scot said:
Subtitle Edit is a superior solution for generating subtitles from audio, and it's free.
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Nice one -- but it's still an "After the fact" so you need to have downloaded the video first to export the subtitles.
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Pretty sure you are wrong about freely boxes auto producing subtitles.

I have a manhattan box and it has many shows that do not have subtitles. Of this I am very aware aa subtitles are important to me.

Just become so old movie channels have subtitles it just means subtitles have been added retroactively. Such channels know their main audience is older persons and so to get some traction, adding subtitles makes sense.

It is no big deal for them to digitise old moves and create subtitles. Hell anybody could do that with a pc for many years.

Ironically autogeneration of subtitles is probably easier on old movies as they usually do not suffer from the Hollywood Director orgasmic fetish of ridiculously loud background music.
 

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