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#subtitles

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ACCESS TECH @ TU Vienna

Everyday InAccessibility - Today: Robin

"My partner and I are an international #deaf couple. We want to enjoy movies together, each with #subtitles in our own language. But it’s much harder than it should be.

🎬 Cinemas don’t offer dual subtitles, so we rely on technical solutions. Yet, the few available tools are often faulty, not cross-platform, or simply unreliable.

🫠 Why is it so difficult to learn languages and enjoy movies together, accessible?"

The background is dark turquoise. In light pink and white text, it says 'Everyday Inaccessibility.' Below, in a handwritten font, it says 'with Robin.' Above this text is the AccessTech logo. In the bottom left corner, there is a digitally drawn image of Robin in a blue-to-pink gradient. Robin is a white cis male person with short hair.
Image 2: The background is light pink with a dark pink border. In dark text, it says: 'My partner Marcos and I are a deaf international couple, and we love watching movies together. He’s Spanish, and I’m German. We want to have different languages for the subtitles. Should be no issue, right?' Below the text, there is a sketch-style illustration of a popcorn bucket with popcorn spilling out. Image 3: The background is light pink with a dark pink border. In dark text, it says: 'While cinemas don’t provide dual subtitles and access in general, we have to do it on our own. However, watching a movie with dual subtitles has proven to be a real challenge.' Below the text, there is a photo showing a movie playing on a laptop. The screen displays two subtitle tracks in different languages, overlapping each other, making it difficult to read.
Image 4: The background is light pink with a dark pink border. In dark text, it says: 'There are only a few plugins available, but half of them don’t work, and the ones that do aren’t cross-platform. It is frustrating and defeating to have to keep trying something new over and over again. It drains time and energy.' In the bottom right corner, there is a sketch-style illustration of a battery with low energy. Image 5: The background is light pink with a dark pink border. In dark text, it says: 'And when we finally find one that seems to work and start the movie... The subtitles are misaligned, translated incorrectly. This happens too often.' Below the text, there is an image of a laptop screen playing a movie. Two subtitle tracks in different languages are overlapping, making them difficult to read.
The background is dark turquoise. In light-colored text, it says: 'Why can’t it just be... technically simple to learn a language and enjoy?' Below the text, the digital illustration of Robin is shown again.
#Accessibility#InAccessibility#HCI
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Your Autistic Life FR/EN/ES

Oh oh oh... listen to this one.

I watched Hjem til jul (Home for Christmas) when I lived with my ex-wife. The audio is Norwegian, but since my ex-wife was watching too, the subtitles were in English.

Then I rewatched recently. I decided to put on the bokmål subtitles. (Bokmål is one of the Norwegian dialects.) I can understand some bokmål, but not a ton.

Then I thought about it more. I'm done with Bandidos, but I don't have another series with decent Spanish subtitles... except that Hjem til jul does come with a ton of other subtitles than bokmål or English.

I look, and yes! There's Latino-American subtitles.

So now I'm watching it with the audio in Norwegian and the subtitles in Spanish. It is a little weird, but it works.

:madjoy:

#HjemTilJul#HomeForChristmas#subtitles
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ajtocsugo

It’s already been a year since my wife and I have visited #Chile - first time in South America for both of us. Many treasured memories were made, especually thanks to the friendly people and breathtaking scenery. I tried to #vlog a bit, but true to the rookie I am, I missed to capture a lot of the good stuff.

youtu.be/BqW5jnxx0kY?si=vYKcfi

Anyway, give it a look if interested! English #subtitles are available as usual.

YouTubeChile - a távoldél felfedezéseBy hiking in HDR
#iPhone#iphone13pro#hike
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BinaryUnit

With the same sentiment as "You know what really grinds my gears" meme

I always watch movies with EN subtitles, and original voice. And most of the time this happens

- [Speaks in "other language"]

Then you switch to the "other language" subtitle and there they are displayed in plain sight.

WTF, WTH whyyy uuuuuuuuu.....?

#subtitles#movies#accessibility
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Thor A. Hopland

Remember to make your #subtitles #ASS... not sure that subtitle is fitting, but in regards to #AI I hope more counteracts have similarly fitting acronyms.

We've been talking about making half of your #toots gibberish, to make fake content meant to confuse #generativeAI, to fill #YouTube with gunk to offset the models even more.

But hardcoding subtitles and making the text subtitles misleading is a way to go.

youtu.be/NEDFUjqA1s8

YouTubePoisoning AI with ".аss" subtitlesBy f4mi
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Graham Perrin

@sidereal I can't comment on the time taken to edit video.

As someone who occasionally transcribes: I assure readers that the time required to transcribe can be enormous — COLOSSAL — compared to the duration of the audio or AV content that must be listened to, repeatedly.

I can not speak for @howisyourdog but I typically don't bother with content that lacks captions (subtitles). Substandard accessibility is an immediate turn-off.

Cc @grvsmth @bedast

#accessibility#transcription#captions
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Randahl Fink

I want my show to be for everyone, so today I added #subtitles to my latest episode “Musk fighting MAGA — Trump's presidency in meltdown before launch.”

This means, you can now click the ⚙️ and select accurate, hand-made subtitles, instead of the often inaccurately generated ones. Plus avid readers can now read the whole script via the Show Transcript button.

This should also make auto-translation to other languages work much better. Enjoy!

youtube.com/watch?v=fPJ6LUq8HMw

Screenshot from the video showing Elon Musk at a Trump rally. Elon is in all black clothes behind a speakers lectern, has his arms raised and is screaming. At the bottom, subtitles are visible — the text says "he jumped around on stage to get Trump ellected."
#YouTube#WhatToWatch
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proedie

#Arte is a #French #German #TV channel that has most of its programming online. When they have a #Hollywood #movie for example, you can watch it as a stream in French or German. Due to #licensing issues, they are usually not allowed to show the original #English version.

What they MAY do is to have an English version with French ‘burned in’ #subtitles.

So, all you have to do is to download a dubbed version and a subtitled version et voilà: original restored!

#mkvtoolnix
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@boracius @fasnix @sarajw @kaiserkiwi granted, that's a digital library, whereas @dw_innovation's material is freely accessible and AFAIK only has a login to enable people to track their progress and see what materials they went through.

Either way, all affordable and free learning resources are valid and good, to the point that I'd say having more options is always better depending on how someone learns a languague.

  • Some may just be quicker watching @tagesschau with #Subtitles in #German, tho that's not an easy way to get started if one's a total beginner...
#subtitles#german
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ĸurth

Beware tonight’s #Monsterdon subtitles downloadable from archive.org (archive.org/details/Phantom_Pl). Bad speech-recognition material 😕 See images. sheesh

Took the liberty to de-shake Blackhawk66’s subs (subdl.com/s/info/23C5JNzkIc/th, de-syncing +/-~1500ms throughout archive.org’s 1h22’04”-mp4-file) which should fit (more or less) good now with the material ('H.264', 489.1M)

paste.tchncs.de/upload/snail-f

(.srt file)

Black and white movie still of a woman. subtitle reads »Your rocket is no longer on this planet«
Black and white movie still of a woman. subtitle reads »Iraq is no longer on this planet, it was sent of last night while you were«
#Subtitles
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8Petros [$ rm -rv /capitalism/*]

#Debian #KDE #subtitles
I am trying to #subtitle a #video. #subAegis (neither repo nor Flatpak) doesn't want to start. github.com/kitone/subtitleedit… has no tutorials and the UX is subpar.
KDE Subtitle Composer refuses to open the text file, vaguely hinting possible char encoding problem. Unfortunately KDE resources are all stubs for this app.

So, can someone help me either to get real tutorial for this KDE app, or to find something that both works and is user friendly? I am reluctant to use SAAS.

GitHubGitHub - kitone/subtitleeditor: Subtitle Editor is a GTK+3 tool to create or edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD.Subtitle Editor is a GTK+3 tool to create or edit subtitles for GNU/Linux/*BSD. - kitone/subtitleeditor
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