by Dmitry Kirsanov
22. July 2024 19:48
Yesterday I was doing a thing that seemed to be nearly impossible a couple of years ago. I translated video from one language to another, so that it would be “professionally narrated” in voice and language that I prefer. I did it using the latest update of SoundWorks, my tool of trade for sound and multimedia. But the point is – I counted, how many AI tools are used in process, behind the scenes. And it turned out – quite a few.
SoundWorks takes your original video and produces new one, with either added voice, or replaced one. A must have thing for training videos. Apart from obvious FFMPEG stuff, such as extracting and attaching audio track, it transcribes existing video (1), rewrites text, if needed (2), creates new voiceover (3), and if needed – translates it to another language. And that’s 4 different AI engines, where in fact there are more, but we choose any four. For example – we can translate with DeepL, or do it with Azure. We can rewrite using ChatGPT, or do it with Claude.
Even without AGI (Artificial General Intelligence, basically true intellect), we are expanding our toolsets without noticing. It’s one of those changes you don’t notice, which slowly changes life until it hardly resembles the one we had 10 years ago.
Since I find this feature of translating and automatically voicing videos and audios to be extremely useful, here is the video that is showing how it works. SoundWorks is free, by the way.