voodoo47 on 18/1/2020 at 16:38
any free, working tool out there that would allow me to generate subtitles for a (35 minute long) video? quality is not important, timings are. googled a bit and even registered at a couple of places, but as soon as I got to the generate subs&download button everyone was "yep, this is where you buy the pro version". which is an overkill for a one-time task.
thanks.
WingedKagouti on 18/1/2020 at 19:27
If it's going to be uploaded to Youtube, they have a tool to autogenerate subtitles.
voodoo47 on 18/1/2020 at 20:32
yeah, that plan didn't work out - I have the video uploaded for about week now, still no auto subtitles, and there is no "how about you generate them NOW" button. as far as I can tell, a few parts of the video not being in english and the accent on the english parts is too much for youtube to crack.
tried to upload a bit of the english segment - a guy introducing family members in fairly decent english, and the subs did generate, but the detected language was portugese, and when I put the generated text into a translator, it started blabbing about undermining bad boom-boom people cells in London, I kid you not - hope MI5 was not listening. thanks, algorithms.
Starker on 18/1/2020 at 20:38
If it's just a one-off task, it's not a really that big of a deal to make them yourself with Subtitle Edit. It even has the waveform to help.
voodoo47 on 18/1/2020 at 21:10
that's what I'll probably end up doing, but I'm open to ideas in the meantime.
voodoo47 on 22/1/2020 at 19:29
oh yes, this is a pita and a half - getting one minute subbed properly takes about 15 minutes, so with a 35 min video, I'm looking at some 9 hours of excruciatingly annoying work, give or take.
note to self - lets not volunteer for work I have no experience with, EVER again.
voodoo47 on 27/1/2020 at 17:30
I'm all but done at this point, so I probably won't even check (I'm pretty confident I won't be poking anything similar anytime soon), but hey, maybe someone else will find it useful.
and considering the nature of the clip, I don't think auto-tools of any kind would help much - I'm guessing they can do a decent job under ideal circumstances (perfect English, no interference), but in the case of a chaotic video taken with mediocre equipment, and people talking over themselves in half a dozen different accents and two languages, not so much.