Ray by OpenSubtitles.com

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I'm not sure if this is on anyone's radar, but I would love a plugin to make use of the new Ray project by OpenSubtitles.

See the kickstarter here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/techspecs/ray-watch-anything-understand-everything/description

There appear to be multiple usage modes, but integration into existing media servers like Emby is clearly one of them.

I think this is a perfect use case for AI and I also happen to think the state of subtitles (functionality, sync, subtitle creation, translation availability, etc.. ) is scandalously bad considering it's 2026. This will be a huge improvement that approaches something close to perfection right away. 

I also think they're approaching the project ethically by using models responsibly and only when necessary (when human-created subtitles don't exist). I also believe the generated subtitles for a given title are stored back to OpenSubtitles meaning theoretically once a given title has been analyzed and the subtitle files have been created, future calls for that subtitle would just be a download from OpenSubtitles just as we would expect. 

I think it's a great idea and look forward to using it in Emby!