Cloudflare Stream launched AI-powered automated captions to transcribe English in on-demand videos in March 2024. Customers’ immediate next questions were about other languages — both transcribing audio from other languages, and translating captions to make subtitles for other languages. As the Stream Product Manager, I’ve thought a lot about how we might tackle these, but I wondered… What if I just translated a generated VTT (caption file)? Can we do that? I hoped to use Workers AI to conduct a quick experiment to learn more about the problem space, challenges we may find, and what platform capabilities we can leverage. There is a sample translator demo in Workers documentation that uses the “ m2m100-1.2b ” Many-to-Many multilingual translation model to translate short input strings. I decided to start there […]
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