Incorrect timings

[jrkoiter]

Cool program! When translating this subtitle from English to Dutch: cli/translator.mjs --stream --temperature 0 --from "English" --to "Dutch" --file ~/Downloads/subtitle.srt

The resulting timings are off:

[Cerlancism]

Thanks for trying out the program. I am aware of this problem, this problem resides in ChatGPT itself.

There are several workarounds I thought of:

• Cross-check manually. I use Google Sheets, paste in the original .srt (copied from Aegisub, which writes CSV to the clipboard), paste in the output progress .csv, and compare it with another translation service, such as the =GOOGLETRANSLATE formula
• Use smaller batch sizes, or even --batch-sizes [1]
• Provide a more specific system instruction, such as the one found here, which burns more tokens. However, the result is still not guaranteed. https://github.com/gnehs/subtitle-translator/blob/52ee34917dad5aa0a8eb7dd89b9b971b8438035c/index.js#L34