New project to translate videos subtitles

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM Johnny Jazeix <jazeix at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>

Hi Johnny,


>
> Inspired by the accessibility goal, Promo had the idea of including
> subtitles and closed captions for videos for several KDE projects
> (Akademy interviews, GCompris videos like
> https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/symxHCzUj9TA7LZoZagD9c...).
>
> I've created a repository which handles the conversion from subtitles
> <=> po files for translators using KDE scripts
> (https://invent.kde.org/jjazeix/srt2po) and Translate Toolkit.
> There is also a script to upload the subtitles to the KDE peertube
> instance.
>
> There could be several issues with translating only the text but I
> still think it's worth it to be able to translate them using the usual
> KDE workflow:
> * if we want to display some lines longer because the translated text
> takes more time to read;
> * if we want to add extra texts at different times.
> In order to workaround these issues, the project will also allow
> translator to directly write the srt files instead of passing by a po
> file.
> All the srt files will be centralised here, which will avoid
> translators to look for them.
>
> In which gitlab group would it be better to create this repository and
> what would be the process to create it? Accessibility ou Utilities
> seem good to me but as it will contain more data than scripts/code,
> maybe there is a better place for it.
>

This isn't something that fits terribly well within our existing groupings,
especially given it is mostly promotional content.

The tooling itself that supports this should go to SDK I would say, as this
is something that only a developer/translator/etc would use (never an
actual user).

In the absence of anything else, websites/ works well for the actual
content itself given this will end up attached to videos we publish online.

Cheers,
Ben


>
> Cheers,
> Johnny
>
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