From 163ddf1904db59fd5f2eb35d1b654bc867ec6b62 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 20:38:27 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Initial release --- README.md | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1289f08..d997eb8 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -18,20 +18,26 @@ short_description: Movie transcription for language learners Tiger ===== -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 @@ -39,11 +45,10 @@ errors - missing couple of phrases every few other lines_. This was a big NO for 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] > @@ -52,8 +57,8 @@ targets specifically for language learners__ > 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] @@ -71,3 +76,5 @@ targets specifically for language learners__ [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 \ No newline at end of file