{"id":500,"date":"2026-08-25T04:56:42","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/?p=500"},"modified":"2026-08-25T04:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T04:56:42","slug":"a-case-study-in-ai-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/a-case-study-in-ai-translation\/","title":{"rendered":"A Case Study in AI Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- obsidian --><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/image.pmgstatic.com\/cache\/resized\/w420\/files\/images\/film\/posters\/165\/328\/165328762_24e470.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of my hobbies has been hunting for obscure foreign films. 20 years ago I scoured eBay to get VHS copies of Orson Welles\u2019 &#8220;F for Fake&#8221; and Les Blank\u2019s &#8220;Burden of Dreams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A few years ago, I finally tracked down a copy of the 1965 Norwegian film The Guards (Vaktpostene). For some strange reason, the film was entirely in Norwegian. That blocked me from going any further with it.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, an AI app called WhisperTranscribe solved this problem. I ran the film through the model, which automatically detected the Norwegian audio and generated English subtitles. The process was seamless. 100% local, no cloud nonsense. Free too.<\/p>\n<p>AI has changed the way we interact with niche media. Tools like WhisperTranscribe allow us to engage with any piece of history, regardless of the original language. There&#8217;s a French book that&#8217;s been out for 12 years without an English translation that I really want to read. Translating that is my next project.<\/p>\n<p>RW<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of my hobbies has been hunting for obscure foreign films. 20 years ago I scoured eBay to get VHS copies of Orson Welles\u2019 &#8220;F for Fake&#8221; and Les Blank\u2019s &#8220;Burden of Dreams.&#8221; A few years ago, I finally tracked down a copy of the 1965 Norwegian film The Guards (Vaktpostene). For some strange reason, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-personal"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":501,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions\/501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardwinser.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}