[Sw-l] SignTube Program for SW captions on videos

Jonathan Duncan jonathandouglasduncan at gmail.com
Sun Aug 6 14:24:35 UTC 2023


Hi Amit,

     I've made some changes to SWSignwriter so that we can export a .vtt 
file from it to be used in SignTube.  See attached.

Let me know if you can import it easily into SignTube or if I need to 
make any tweaks.  Thanks

Jonathan

On 5/29/2023 8:12 AM, Valerie Sutton wrote:
> SignWriting List
> May 29, 2023
>
> Hello Amit -
> As you can see by the messages received, we love this work and would 
> be so grateful for a tutorial so we can manually do this until you 
> have it automated. THANK YOU for envisioning the project, and working 
> on it... If this could be automated someday, it will be a major 
> accomplishment, and what you have done already already is!
>
> Our gratitude, Amit -
>
> Val ;-)
>
> ____________
>
>
>> On May 26, 2023, at 4:53 AM, Amit Moryossef <amitmoryossef at GMAIL.COM> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Some of you might already be familiar with this video by Adam Frost.
>> I saw the transcription on SignPuddle, so I decided to align the 
>> video with the SignWriting transcription.
>>
>> *Video with transcription*:
>> https://youtu.be/Fr4R5Rs14AM
>> (The video quality is poor since the original video 
>> <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mtl7dmyHgJU>'s quality is poor.)
>>
>> To those unfamiliar with my work, I attempt to automate this process 
>> - for every video, I would like to automatically generate 
>> SignWriting, and translate it into a spoken language. This video was 
>> manual, and the dream is to completely automate this process.
>>
>> *Original content:*
>> Why SignWriting (part 1) 
>> <https://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.6/searchword.php?ui=1&sgn=5&sid=352&sTrm=Why&type=any&sTxt=&sSrc=&>
>> Why SignWriting (part 2) 
>> <https://www.signbank.org/SignPuddle1.6/searchword.php?ui=1&sgn=5&sid=353&sTrm=Why&type=any&sTxt=&sSrc=&>
>>
>> *Modifications:*
>> There's a sign for "system" missing in the original transcription. I 
>> added it.
>>
>> *Thanks* to Adam for recording this video, and to Steve for teaching 
>> me how to convert old SignWriting formats (BSW3) to FSW.
>>
>> *Additional information*:
>> The interface is my own. If there would be interest from people to 
>> manually transcribe videos, and show the SignWriting on screen, I 
>> could make a tutorial.
>> I attached the VTT captions file if anyone is interested in it.
>>
>> ________________________________________________
>>
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>>
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