Translate German video to English
German is one of the languages the model translates into English best: 25.9 BLEU for Accurate, almost twice what Fast manages, in OpenAI’s figures.
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How well it translates German into English
| Model in Shycut | BLEU into English | From the paper |
|---|---|---|
| Accurate (Whisper small) | 25.9 | Table 14, “Whisper small” row, German column · OpenAI |
| Fast (Whisper base) | 13.7 | Table 14, “Whisper base” row, German column · OpenAI |
BLEU compares a machine translation with human ones; higher is closer. These are OpenAI’s scores on the FLEURS set.
Accurate scores 1.9 times as high as Fast here, so a translate link opens Shycut with Accurate chosen.
How often it gets a German word wrong
| Model in Shycut | Word error rate | Roughly | From the paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accurate (Whisper small) | 10.2% | 1 word in 10 | Table 13, “Whisper small” row, German column · OpenAI |
| Fast (Whisper base) | 17.9% | 1 word in 6 | Table 13, “Whisper base” row, German column · OpenAI |
Word error rate is the share of words a model gets wrong (swapped, missed or added) against a human transcript, in OpenAI’s own test on the FLEURS speech set; lower is better.
Shycut runs these two models converted to work in a browser (with 8-bit or 4-bit weights on some devices), so its results can differ a little from the paper’s.
How the translation is made
- While it listens
- The speech model writes English as it hears the German: no separate translation step, and nothing is sent anywhere.
- Timed to the speech
- Each line follows the speech it translates; the timing of single words is approximate, since English word order differs.
- Kept apart from the script
- English words aren’t the ones said, so Shycut doesn’t use them to cut the video or find hesitations; the Text tab offers to write the speech as spoken.
German word order, English lines
German often puts the verb at the end of a clause, where English puts it early, so a translated line can’t follow the speech word by word. Shycut times each English line to the stretch of speech it translates.
German ranks second of the 9 languages Shycut translates. The Fast model scores 13.7; the translate link opens with Accurate, 1.9 times as high, already chosen.
How to do it in Shycut
Open your video
The button opens Shycut set to translate German speech into English, with the Accurate model chosen.
Write the English captions
The model listens to the speech and writes English lines, timed to it, on your device.
Check, then save
Read the lines through, correct what needs it, then save the video with them or download an SRT file.
Where these facts come from
Questions
How accurate is German to English here?
OpenAI reports 25.9 BLEU for Accurate and 13.7 for Fast.
Why don’t single words line up with the speech?
English and German order words differently; lines are timed to the speech, single words only roughly.
Can I edit the English lines?
Yes. Every line is editable in the Captions tab before saving.
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