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Tiger
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Tiger is a Hugging Face space that helps language learner to extract movie subtitles
__Tiger__ is a [Hugging Face space][Project Tiger on Hugging Face] automatic speech recognition that takes a video file
as input to generate a video with subtitles as well as downloadable .txt, .vtt, .srt transcription files. Tiger
generates transcriptions using the [OpenAI Whisper](https://openai.com/blog/whisper) model.

The app is available on [Hugging Face space][Project Tiger on Hugging Face]. Please have a try.

How Project Tiger Started
-------------------------

__I don't believe NLP is inherently AI__. [Project Tiger](), however, enlightened me on what way should AI makes NLP
more powerful for people.
I don't believe NLP is inherently AI. [Project Tiger](), however, enlightened me on what way should AI makes NLP more
powerful for people.

Paraphrasing a movie line has been my favorite approach to learn a foreign language. This was why I was able to speak
close-native English in early days. I used this same tactic for German today.

Paraphrasing a movie line is my favorite approach to learn a foreign language. This was why I was able to speak
close-native English in early days. I used this same tactic for German. One morning I was studying German with the
famous German WW2 movie [_Generation War_](https://youtu.be/TmyGPX23px4?si=wk3V62vLUe9zFzfo). Managing to find its
subtitles[^1][^2][^3] were easy for me. A problem, however, soon arose as I proceeded with them: _the subtitles had
errors - missing couple of phrases every few other lines_. This was a big NO for language learners like me. In old days
10 years ago, I would've reached a dead end...
One morning I was studying German with the famous German WW2 movie
[_Generation War_](https://youtu.be/TmyGPX23px4?si=wk3V62vLUe9zFzfo). Managing to find its subtitles[^1][^2][^3] were
easy for me. A problem, however, soon arose as I proceeded with them: _the subtitles had errors - missing couple of
phrases every few other lines_. This was a big NO for language learners like me. In old days 10 years ago, I would've
reached a dead end...

[^1]: https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/6243166/generation-war-eine-andere-zeit-de
[^2]: https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/6243167/generation-war-ein-anderer-krieg-de
[^3]: https://www.opensubtitles.org/en/subtitles/6243168/generation-war-ein-anderes-land-de

Almost immediately, I had this idea of having AI figure out those missing words for me; so tried
[OpenAI's Whisper](https://huggingface.co/spaces/openai/whisper) which, quite surprisingly, yield 100% accurate results.
This marked the milestone where AI produced real value for my life.
That was the first occasion where AI produced significant solid values for my life.

Feeling so excited, I decided to industrialize this process and hereby present it as
[Project Tiger on Hugging Face](https://huggingface.co/spaces/QubitPi/tiger), an __AI movie transcription service that
targets specifically for language learners__
[Project Tiger on Hugging Face], an __AI movie transcription service that targets specifically for language learners__

> [!NOTE]
>
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> The project name _tiger_ was taken from the _German heavy tank of World War II -
> [Tiger I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_I)_.
>
> I chose this name because the project idea was spawned from the study of German language and _Tiger I_ has been widely
> regarded as a revolutionary tank as a crown jewels in the history of warfare technology:
> I chose this name because the project idea was spawned from the study of German language. More importantly, _Tiger I_
> has been widely recognized as a revolutionary tank being a crown jewels in the history of warfare technology:
>
> > _"It is tempting to view the appearance of the Tiger tank as revolutionary, ... the end result was a machine that
> > represented a quantum leap forward in tank design and changed everything - forever"_[^4]
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[Hugging Face sync status badge]: https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/QubitPi/tiger/ci-cd.yaml?branch=master&style=for-the-badge&logo=github&logoColor=white&label=Hugging%20Face%20Sync%20Up
[Hugging Face sync status URL]: https://github.com/QubitPi/tiger/actions/workflows/ci-cd.yaml

[Project Tiger on Hugging Face]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/QubitPi/tiger

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