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

Jonathan Duncan jonathandouglasduncan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 16:23:31 UTC 2023


Ok, it's working now!!  You can export the subtitles of the translated 
text for SignTube.

WEBVTT

00:00.000 --> 00:00.500
<c.Sgnw>𝠃𝤍𝤢񂇡𝤀𝤇񈗡𝣿𝣲񋵡𝤀𝣪</c>

00:00.500 --> 00:01.000
<c.Sgnw>𝠀񀠢񀠫񆉁𝠃𝤞𝤛񀠢𝤆𝤀񀠫𝣯𝤂񆉁𝣽𝣱</c>

00:01.000 --> 00:01.500
<c.Sgnw>𝠀񁲱񁲹񈟃񈟗񌄡񌏁񎥁𝠃𝤶𝥒񌏁𝣴𝣺񌄡𝣴𝣯񁲱𝤋𝤯񁲹𝣫𝤯񎥁𝣯𝤜񈟃𝤨𝤵񈟗𝣚𝤷</c>

See attached

On 8/6/2023 8:29 AM, Amit Moryossef wrote:
> Maybe this wasn't 100% clear -
> I mean that the first cue would be 0-0.5, the second one would be 
> 0.5-1, the third 1-1.5 etc...
> not that all should be 0-0.5
>
> Thanks!
>
> On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 4:27 PM Amit Moryossef 
> <amitmoryossef at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     Hi Jonathan, thanks for sharing.
>     At the moment, signTube does not support 0-sized captions (and
>     neither do lots of other players).
>     Could you make it the default that every caption cue takes 0.5
>     seconds for example?
>
>     Amit
>
>     On Sun, Aug 6, 2023 at 4:24 PM Jonathan Duncan
>     <jonathandouglasduncan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>         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> <mailto: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.
>>>
>>>         ________________________________________________
>>>
>>>         SIGNWRITING LIST INFORMATION
>>>
>>>         Valerie Sutton SignWriting List moderator
>>>         sutton at signwriting.org
>>>
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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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>>
>>
>>
>>         ________________________________________________
>>
>>         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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