From 76c8dc31248a50c26e1892d670cf735becb71d42 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 20:01:03 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] Initial release --- README.md | 46 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 87670b5..1959e36 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,15 +11,55 @@ license: apache-2.0 short_description: Movie transcription for language learners --- -Tiger -===== - [![Hugging Face space badge]][Hugging Face space URL] [![Hugging Face sync status badge]][Hugging Face sync status URL] [![Apache License Badge]][Apache License, Version 2.0] +Tiger +===== + Tiger is a Hugging Face space that helps language learner to extract movie subtitles +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. + +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] are easy for me. A problem soon arose as I proceed with them: _the subtitles had errors_ - missing +phrases every few other lines. 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 then 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. + +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), a transcription service that targets +specifically for language learners + +> [!NOTE] +> +> 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: +> +> > _"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] +> +> This project also changed my view toward AI and serves as an empirical guidance on how AI should help people's life +> with NLP + +[^4]: _[Tiger tank : Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger I Ausf. E (SdKfz 181): owner's workshop manual](https://a.co/d/28OzPsK)_, The Tank Museum, 2011. p.13 + [Hugging Face space badge]: https://img.shields.io/badge/Hugging%20Face%20Space-tiger-FFD21E?style=for-the-badge&logo=huggingface&logoColor=white [Hugging Face space URL]: https://huggingface.co/spaces/QubitPi/tiger