BaoCut's open-source approach to AI bilingual subtitle alignment, in five pitfalls
dotey · x · 2026-10-15
JimLiu (宝玉) breaks down how his open-source BaoCut project (956 GitHub stars, an AI video agent for transcribe/subtitle/translate/dub/cut) solves bilingual subtitle alignment. Using timestamped word-level tables, he walks through five pitfalls: ASR mishearing, wrong speaker attribution, translation unit choice, English-Chinese word order mismatch, and line wrapping. Bonus: word-level timing enables karaoke-style highlighting. Part 1 of a series; part 2 covers why not to just feed subtitles to ChatGPT.
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