Yesterday, I needed an image translated. It wasn't a demand to have that translation, but more like a good to have to better understand the context. I knew this should have been possible with AI, but haven't done it before, and since I was busy, didn't bother researching further.
So, today I remembered about that and decided to see how it is done. For some reason I continue to default to ChatGPT for general AI purposes, although I don't like the direction OpenAI is headed (almost nothing open about it), I don't like Sam Altman, and I think they'll be left behind anyway in the long run by behemoth with access to tons of data of their own, besides higher compute capabilities.
First, I tried while being logged out, which is my usual way of using ChatGPT. But looks like the uploading function is disabled for visitors, so I had to log in. Once logged in, all I had to do was to upload the image and ask the AI to translate it. No problem! Got the translation in a few seconds. Looks like it was really simple.
Ideogram helped with this one.
Then I thought... since I'm in this spot, why don't I see how do I get transcripts from videos...
ChatGPT 4o mini (the free version) can't create transcripts from the audio of videos. I then searched online and found some alternatives. Some that seemed very good, but they either required me to create an account or to upgrade in order to be able to copy or save the transcript. Others only took a video as input, not a link, or didn't support Youtube, which is what I wanted in this case (but funnily, supported Tiktok and Instagram).
Eventually, I found this one, which may not be the greatest tool, but did its job and I could copy the transcript after it finished with it.
I don't particularly need to extract transcripts from videos, but I thought it doesn't hurt to learn about it since it's so easy nowadays...
