Translate Turkish video to English
For Turkish the model matters more than anywhere: OpenAI measured 15.7 BLEU into English for Accurate and just 2.4 for Fast. Shycut translates with Accurate.
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How well it translates Turkish into English
| Model in Shycut | BLEU into English | From the paper |
|---|---|---|
| Accurate (Whisper small) | 15.7 | Table 14, “Whisper small” row, Turkish column · OpenAI |
| Fast (Whisper base) | 2.4 | Table 14, “Whisper base” row, Turkish column · OpenAI |
BLEU compares a machine translation with human ones; higher is closer. These are OpenAI’s scores on the FLEURS set.
Accurate scores 6.5 times as high as Fast here, so a translate link opens Shycut with Accurate chosen.
How often it gets a Turkish word wrong
| Model in Shycut | Word error rate | Roughly | From the paper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accurate (Whisper small) | 15.9% | 1 word in 6 | Table 13, “Whisper small” row, Turkish column · OpenAI |
| Fast (Whisper base) | 27.5% | 1 word in 4 | Table 13, “Whisper base” row, Turkish 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 Turkish: 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.
Only with the Accurate model
Turkish has the widest gap between the two models: Accurate translates 6.5 times as well as Fast. That is why arriving from this page selects Accurate, and why the Captions tab warns if Fast is chosen for English.
Turkish translates eighth of the 9 languages Shycut offers, at the edge of the line Shycut asks for a page. Read the English through; Turkish puts the verb last, so whole lines, not single words, follow the speech.
How to do it in Shycut
Open your video
The button opens Shycut set to translate Turkish 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 good is Turkish to English translation?
15.7 BLEU for Accurate and 2.4 for Fast, in OpenAI’s test. Use Accurate.
Can I keep Turkish captions too?
Yes. Write the Turkish as spoken for the script and hesitation cutting, then write English captions if you need them.
Is the video uploaded to translate it?
No. The model runs in your browser, on your device.
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