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.
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!
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.
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.
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