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• wintonmc (orginal) [2019-11-28T04:36:09+01:00] view original

  Hello friends! I come to inform you of an idea it occurred to me is it possible to create a Player that can translate the movie in real time? the idea is that I can capture the voice of the actors and can translate it from English to Spanish.

  I'm sorry, my writing is that I don't know much English

  Thanks!

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• mratsim (orginal) [2019-11-28T11:10:04+01:00] view original

  Yes, it's possible, but that's unrelated to the Nim language.

  You have several solutions:

  • The Shazam/OpenSubtitles way: you fingerprint the audio of the movie or the file, recognize the movie and retrieve the proper subs and/or audio from a database.
  • The "this-could-be-a-big-business" way: you create a software that does real-time audio translation.

  You sell it to the governments in South America and in the UN, put all translators out of business and you forget about Nim ;).

  • Google search there is a spanish app that retrieve spanish audio for current airing US movies, seems very hacky though.

  Anyway to be serious, you can certainly write it in Nim but you have the following issues:

  • Analyzing audio to extract sentences
  • understanding sentences
  • traanslating them

  For audio, look into "Automatic speech recognition" For sentences look into "Natural language Understanding" For translations look into "Neural Machine Translation"

  Combine all and you're done:

  • This is at the very bleeding edge of deep learning
  • Most of the tools are in Python today or proprietary
  • I suggest you start playing with deep learning for audio first, for example using Mozilla or Baidu Deep Speech datasets

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• filip (orginal) [2019-11-28T16:50:47+01:00] view original

  Just wanted to say that Youtube can already do this so it is certainly possible.

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