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0 pointsdo_anh_tu17d ago0 comments

I wrote this Telegram bot that translates any video with AI-generated subtitles in about 2 minutes. You paste a YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram link, pick your language, and get back the video with burned-in subtitles.

It started because my wife watches Chinese dramas and new episodes never have subtitles for our language. Turns out thousands of people have the same problem — Arabic speakers watching anime, Russian speakers following Turkish series, Persian speakers catching up on K-dramas.

Supports 40+ languages, works with any video link or direct file upload. There's also a Mini App inside Telegram for a more visual experience.

https://t.me/subly1bot & https://subly.xyz

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sunnybeetroot17d ago

Hey this looks cool but wanted to highlight a bug. I opened the bot, tapped on sample video and I got the “translating a sample Turkish drama…” message twice. Then it said “your first translation is ready” so I press view in the app and the recent list shows the duplication. It says the first one is ready but the second was in progress. I close the app and see a “our whale friend is gathering video” with a progress bar. So I guess it’s not ready? Then I get a failure message which looks like the second video failed? Anyway, cool idea but it seems buggy and I think the app UX could be simplified, good luck!

do_anh_tuOP16d ago

Thanks for your report, I will try to fix it asap :D Please open the mini app inside the bot, it has much better UI.

shloim10d ago

Cool! I built a similar bot a year ago, mostly for adding subtitles for short videos within telegram, to follow news from around the world.

Blog post here: https://medium.com/data-science-collective/breaking-language...

Check it out here: https://t.me/ktuvitbot

aix117d ago

This looks cool, but what I'd really like is a self-hosted version that I could use to auto-subtitle videos I already have locally. This would help my language learning a great deal.

If any of you have already figured out a tool/workflow for this, I'd love to learn from your experience.

aix117d ago

This thread prompted me to look into this. It seems that all I need is a thin wrapper around whisper-ctranslate2. So I wrote one and am playing with it right now.

I'm finding language auto-detection to be a bit wonky (for example, it repeatedly identified Ladykracher audio as English instead of German). I ended up having to force a language instead. The only show in my library where this approach doesn't work is Parlement[1], but I can live with that.

On the whole this is looking quite promising. Thanks for the idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_(TV_series)

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0 pointsdo_anh_tu17d ago0 comments

Supports 40+ languages, works with any video link or direct file upload. There's also a Mini App inside Telegram for a more visual experience.

https://t.me/subly1bot & https://subly.xyz

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sunnybeetroot17d ago

do_anh_tuOP16d ago

Thanks for your report, I will try to fix it asap :D Please open the mini app inside the bot, it has much better UI.

shloim10d ago

Cool! I built a similar bot a year ago, mostly for adding subtitles for short videos within telegram, to follow news from around the world.

Blog post here: https://medium.com/data-science-collective/breaking-language...

Check it out here: https://t.me/ktuvitbot

aix117d ago

This looks cool, but what I'd really like is a self-hosted version that I could use to auto-subtitle videos I already have locally. This would help my language learning a great deal.

If any of you have already figured out a tool/workflow for this, I'd love to learn from your experience.

aix117d ago

This thread prompted me to look into this. It seems that all I need is a thin wrapper around whisper-ctranslate2. So I wrote one and am playing with it right now.

On the whole this is looking quite promising. Thanks for the idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parlement_(TV_series)

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