Netflix Is Using AI For Its Subtitles

As Netflix continues to expand its global reach, the viewership has become quite global. The audience is totally fine with watching a TV show that is shot in a foreign language. Netflix has somehow succeeded to break the language barrier, but the challenge now lies in making sure that the translations are accurate. Netflix has a rigorous process in place to discard inaccurate subtitles, but that still doesn’t help. So, a group of ML researchers at Netflix have introduced a new approach to tackle this. They call this approach Automatic Pre-Processing or APP. This process, the researchers claim, will give translations that are close to those of the native language. Overview Of The Model Translation quality for low-resource translation (i.e., from English into a low resource language) in the black-box MT (BBMT) setting is challenging. So, the researchers at Netflix introduced a method to improve such systems via automatic pre-processing (APP) using sentence simplification.