Translate Russian video to English
Shycut’s speech model can listen to Russian and write English. OpenAI’s test gives the Accurate model 19.7 BLEU for this, 1.6 times what Fast scores.
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How well it translates Russian into English
| Model in Shycut | BLEU into English | From the paper |
|---|---|---|
| Accurate (Whisper small) | 19.7 | Table 14, “Whisper small” row, Russian column · OpenAI |
| Fast (Whisper base) | 12.1 | Table 14, “Whisper base” row, Russian column · OpenAI |
BLEU compares a machine translation with human ones; higher is closer. These are OpenAI’s scores on the FLEURS set.
Accurate scores 1.6 times as high as Fast here, so a translate link opens Shycut with Accurate chosen.
How often it gets a Russian word wrong
| Model in Shycut | Word error rate | Roughly | From the paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accurate (Whisper small) | 11.4% | 1 word in 9 | Table 13, “Whisper small” row, Russian column · OpenAI |
| Fast (Whisper base) | 20.5% | 1 word in 5 | Table 13, “Whisper base” row, Russian 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 Russian: 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.
From Cyrillic speech to English lines
Russian translates fourth best of the 9 languages Shycut offers, and the Russian itself is heard with about 1 word in 9 wrong. Names written in Latin letters are worth a check, since the model has to guess their spelling.
English lines are timed to the Russian speech, line by line. Save them into the video, or download the SRT and upload it wherever the video goes.
How to do it in Shycut
Open your video
The button opens Shycut set to translate Russian 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 Russian to English?
19.7 BLEU for Accurate and 12.1 for Fast, in OpenAI’s figures.
How are Russian names spelled in English?
The model chooses a spelling; check names in the Captions tab and correct them once.
Is anything sent to a server?
No. The translation runs in your browser, on your device.
Your video stays with you.
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