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

Amit Moryossef amitmoryossef at gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 18:40:22 UTC 2023


This is very cool Ronnie, thanks for sharing :)
Ideally, it will be used to support deaf culture using decentralized video
captioning
And SignWriting education by having both the videos and transcriptions.
Ideally, at one point it will take. For now, I'm working on improving
everything

Amit

On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 8:35 PM Ronnie Fagundes de Brito <
ronniefbrito at gmail.com> wrote:

> hi there,
>
> this is amazing, this can be a good way to support deaf culture
> I'd like to share our experience on this approach... a long time ago
> we tried to deploy signwritng subtitles in online videos, we
> development a 'timestamped SWML' the was the basis to edit and present
> video such as the example here
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvtdzaOVj-I
>
> regards!
>
>
>
>
> Em dom., 6 de ago. de 2023 às 11:24, Jonathan Duncan
> <jonathandouglasduncan at gmail.com> escreveu:
> >
> >
> > 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'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)
> > Why SignWriting (part 2)
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > ________________________________________________
> >
> > SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION
> >
> > Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator sutton at signwriting.org
> >
> > Post Messages to the SignWriting List: sw-l at listserv.valenciacollege.edu
> >
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> >
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> >
> > ________________________________________________
> >
> > SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION
> >
> > Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator sutton at signwriting.org
> >
> > Post Messages to the SignWriting List: sw-l at listserv.valenciacollege.edu
> >
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> >
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> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________________________
> >
> > SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION
> >
> > Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator sutton at signwriting.org
> >
> > Post Messages to the SignWriting List: sw-l at listserv.valenciacollege.edu
> >
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> >
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