I used chatgpt, but there is a problem that the translated text is not compatible with the original text
This means that the translation of line 4 is in line 8 or 5, and sometimes there are empty lines
I tried gpt3 and gpt4, same problem
I pay for every attempt. I hope to solve the problem so that every text corresponds to the translated text
Thank you for trying out these OpenAI translation and sharing your concerns. I can totally see your frustration and this normally happens in the Subtitles where a single sentence spans on multiple lines. In these cases, Chat-GPT trims the line markers I append to identity the paragraphs split back, which makes it really hard to join these back. I guess you can try using other translation modes like “Per-Line” or “Auto-Line”, but none of these are perfect, I must admit. I’m doing some work again to handle the long paragraphs translation and hopefully should improve this soon.
Man this is AMAZING!, I struggled for hours searching for some subtitles because the movie I downloaded was only in Croatian and found this and voilá :D. Recommended
Thanks for the suggestion Aziz. The GPT-4 is still too expensive even for the trial/demo. But I plan to support Free/Demo version of the GPT-4 turbo very soon.
Hi Zech, sorry for the trouble there. If you have PayPal account, I would suggest first loading balance to your PayPal account and then using that pre-loaded balance for any translations.
Would you say the translation quality of 4 is much better than 3.5? Also, what’s the difference between 4 and Turbo other than the latter costing less?
In my limited testing, the translation difference is not that noticeable. But please note that it also highly depend on the language pair you are testing with. So there is not clear answer for this one other than trying it yourself.
Regarding the GPT-4 vs GPT-4 Turbo variant, as far as I can tell they are very comparable in terms of functionality and translation quality. The turbo version is still in experiment mode and thus is rate limited, but other than that, there should be no significant difference.
First thanks for your great work! I use this tool to translate subtitles when I can’t find one in my language.
Today for the “The Collective” movie I found only a Hebrew version which seems to be synced, but there seems to be a problem when trying to translate it.
The original text is not recognized and the translation is only blanks (no text at all, just time ranges).
I’ve tried with multiple browsers, same result. I’ve uploaded the subtitle to pastebin.
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the trouble. I assume you are using Google translator, right?
From your description, it looks like a file encoding issue. I was not able to reproduce the problem though. I just downloaded the file from your PasteBin link, made sure that it’s in UTF-8 and when I upload the file and translate it to English, all seems to be in order and translated content appears normally. Can you please repeat these steps and let me know if you still run into these issues.
Thanks you very much Akbar! 🙂
That was the trick. And yes I used Google translator.
By the way excellent work on that. Now it translates almost instantaneous comparing with your older code that had to scroll the file in order to translate it.
The original subtitle file was encoded as “Windows-1255” (CRLF) according to Notepad++
After conversion to “UTF-8” it worked like a charm.
Thanks Marcel for getting back. I’m glad that you were able to resolve that issue.
Yeah, that UTF-8 conversion is a pain, and there are lot of encoding options to get it all correct in single go. I do have some automatic conversion in place for encoding, but it doesn’t yet work for all combinations. I will give this another look for sure. Thanks for sharing the links. All looks relevant 🙂
Hi, i cannot use my paypal account, my cards are not displayed… i think it’s because it’s in USD and i my card is french (euros). Usually it’s not a problem but it’s not working for your website :/
Hi, sorry for the trouble there. Another option which I think have worked for others in past is to instead pay using PayPal Balance i.e. first load money into your PayPal account using your Credit Card and then try to pay using the pre-loaded PayPal balance. I hope that helps.
Section of subtitles are not being translated, for eg. 22.26 – 25.24 were not translated for Ep 5 7Xjy1R0dHIXXXXX.
Secondly, in some dialogues, the paragraph translation does not uniformly correspond to the length of the subtitle, like there’s 1 word in a 3 second segment, and there’s 10 words in a 1 second segment – e. 1.06.27 should be at 1.06.29.
I used chatgpt, but there is a problem that the translated text is not compatible with the original text
This means that the translation of line 4 is in line 8 or 5, and sometimes there are empty lines
I tried gpt3 and gpt4, same problem
I pay for every attempt. I hope to solve the problem so that every text corresponds to the translated text
Hi Ali,
Thank you for trying out these OpenAI translation and sharing your concerns. I can totally see your frustration and this normally happens in the Subtitles where a single sentence spans on multiple lines. In these cases, Chat-GPT trims the line markers I append to identity the paragraphs split back, which makes it really hard to join these back. I guess you can try using other translation modes like “Per-Line” or “Auto-Line”, but none of these are perfect, I must admit. I’m doing some work again to handle the long paragraphs translation and hopefully should improve this soon.
Regards, Akbar
Man this is AMAZING!, I struggled for hours searching for some subtitles because the movie I downloaded was only in Croatian and found this and voilá :D. Recommended
can you please provide us FREE First 30 Lines
for Both GPT 4 and GPT 4 Turbo
In order to Test Which of Them is The Best
Thanks for the suggestion Aziz. The GPT-4 is still too expensive even for the trial/demo. But I plan to support Free/Demo version of the GPT-4 turbo very soon.
Regards, Akbar
I would like to try to pay for a translation with PayPal, but it says my card can’t be used for the transaction. Do you know why this would be?
Hi Zech, sorry for the trouble there. If you have PayPal account, I would suggest first loading balance to your PayPal account and then using that pre-loaded balance for any translations.
Regards, Akbar
Would you say the translation quality of 4 is much better than 3.5? Also, what’s the difference between 4 and Turbo other than the latter costing less?
In my limited testing, the translation difference is not that noticeable. But please note that it also highly depend on the language pair you are testing with. So there is not clear answer for this one other than trying it yourself.
Regarding the GPT-4 vs GPT-4 Turbo variant, as far as I can tell they are very comparable in terms of functionality and translation quality. The turbo version is still in experiment mode and thus is rate limited, but other than that, there should be no significant difference.
Regards, Akbar
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Hi Akbar,
First thanks for your great work! I use this tool to translate subtitles when I can’t find one in my language.
Today for the “The Collective” movie I found only a Hebrew version which seems to be synced, but there seems to be a problem when trying to translate it.
The original text is not recognized and the translation is only blanks (no text at all, just time ranges).
I’ve tried with multiple browsers, same result. I’ve uploaded the subtitle to pastebin.
https://pastebin.com/KuN8qc21
Hi Marcel,
Thanks for the feedback and sorry for the trouble. I assume you are using Google translator, right?
From your description, it looks like a file encoding issue. I was not able to reproduce the problem though. I just downloaded the file from your PasteBin link, made sure that it’s in UTF-8 and when I upload the file and translate it to English, all seems to be in order and translated content appears normally. Can you please repeat these steps and let me know if you still run into these issues.
Regards, Akbar
Thanks you very much Akbar! 🙂
That was the trick. And yes I used Google translator.
By the way excellent work on that. Now it translates almost instantaneous comparing with your older code that had to scroll the file in order to translate it.
The original subtitle file was encoded as “Windows-1255” (CRLF) according to Notepad++
After conversion to “UTF-8” it worked like a charm.
Can this be done automatically on the server after uploading the file? Now I know this trick, but others might not 😀
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2014069/windows-1252-to-utf-8-encoding
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20907388/converting-windows-1255-to-utf-8-in-php-5
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/910793/detect-encoding-and-make-everything-utf-8
Thanks Marcel for getting back. I’m glad that you were able to resolve that issue.
Yeah, that UTF-8 conversion is a pain, and there are lot of encoding options to get it all correct in single go. I do have some automatic conversion in place for encoding, but it doesn’t yet work for all combinations. I will give this another look for sure. Thanks for sharing the links. All looks relevant 🙂
Regards, Akbar
Hola, quería saber si había problemas con los subtítulos después de la traducción, se mantienen bien las palabras no?
Yes, it works in most of the cases. However, I would highly recommend to go through the translation afterwards and review and edit as required.
Regards, Akbar
Hi, i cannot use my paypal account, my cards are not displayed… i think it’s because it’s in USD and i my card is french (euros). Usually it’s not a problem but it’s not working for your website :/
Hi, sorry for the trouble there. Another option which I think have worked for others in past is to instead pay using PayPal Balance i.e. first load money into your PayPal account using your Credit Card and then try to pay using the pre-loaded PayPal balance. I hope that helps.
Regards, Akbar
Section of subtitles are not being translated, for eg. 22.26 – 25.24 were not translated for Ep 5 7Xjy1R0dHIXXXXX.
Secondly, in some dialogues, the paragraph translation does not uniformly correspond to the length of the subtitle, like there’s 1 word in a 3 second segment, and there’s 10 words in a 1 second segment – e. 1.06.27 should be at 1.06.29.
Other strange output:
– 1.04.55/58
– 1.37.13 > 44
Let us know your thoughts / tweaks.
Thanks Osman for sharing the feedback.
I replied in detail to you via email, but still posting here for the sake of other community members.
1) For the first issue, I would suggest specifying the source translation language (instead of keeping this to “Auto Detected”) and see if that works.
2) And for the second issue, I would suggest to try switching the various Translation Modes and see if any of that helps?
Regards,
Akbar
Hello, thank you for your useful software