When I watch a video I can click on the CC button. It highlights in white which means it’s “on”. But no subtitles appear.

Does this just mean the authors of the videos didn’t make subtitles. If so maybe the app should say “no captions available”. Or is this purely a problem with the app?

I’m functionally deaf and really wanna switch from having all my eggs in the YouTube basket but I’m having real trouble making PeerTube usable for me due to captions issues.

  • poVoq@slrpnk.net
    3·
    2 days ago

    I noticed on my tests that if I run a worker for creating subtitles, and enable GPU accelleration, those subtitles end up blank. Probably an issue with my setup, but I imagine this could be a common failure mode.

    • MeldrikMA
      1·
      2 days ago

      I don’t use remote runners on my instance yet, but I know that if it’s a video where someone is whispering, the AI does not pick it up very well and most of the transcript end up blank.

      • poVoq@slrpnk.net
        2·
        2 days ago

        Yeah I guess, but in my case the identical video is transcribed fine if I let the Whisper AI model run on the CPU, it just takes much longer to complete.

        • MeldrikMA
          1·
          2 days ago

          That is weird. If you haven’t already, you should report it to their Github page.