Building the Ideal Online Video Curriculum For Endangered Languages Using WAYK

[Heidi Harley]

Hi all --

One member of our working group, Dane Bell, has been creating some
captioned video files for audio-only interviews in Hiaki, so that
people can hear the language and read it at the same time,
karaoke-style, on the web.

The method Dane has been using for creating his captioned video files
for these audio-only interviews can also be used for video, I believe.

He wrote up a set of instructions describing what he's doing, which you
can link to here:

http://dingo.sbs.arizona.edu/~yaqui/CaptioningInstructions.pdf

It involves the free software Aegisub Advanced Subtitle Editor, plus
some other sofware that isn't free but may have free equivalents.

However, this method is still extremely time-consuming!!

I'll send a link to the finished product when we get it up so you can
see what we were trying to accomplish.

all the best, hh

thanks for all the posts

You wrote:

> I would like suggestions on how to add subtitles to video for YouTube 
> as it takes a very long time for me to do this now. (6 hrs editing 
> time for a 11 minute video)
> I have no budget for expensive software and a basic PC but perhaps 
> there are ways to do this withwith readily available applicable 
> software?
> I just need to add text to audio as it is being spoken, the text is 
> in an accepted font-for me its adding subtitles more quickly
> Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless handheld
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From:         "s.t. bischoff" <bischoff.st at GMAIL.COM>
> Sender:       Indigenous Languages and Technology <ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
> Date:         Thu, 12 May 2011 10:49:48
> To: <ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
> Reply-To:     Indigenous Languages and Technology <ILAT at LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU>
> Subject: Re: [ILAT] Building the Ideal Online Video Curriculum For 
> Endangered Languages Using WAYK
>
> William this is really great. Do you think it would be difficult to add
> subtitles in the language (given many languages use special characters not
> necessarily available in unicode)?
>
> On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 10:42 AM, Willem Larsen 
> <willemlarsen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> "Where Are Your Keys?" is a design system for generating accelerating
>> learning, primarily applied to revitalizing endangered languages. More info
>> at http://whereareyourkeys.org.
>>
>> We're working on the ideal "youtube" video format for endangered languages,
>> and blogged our experiments applying principles of accelerated learning to
>> Chinook Jargon curriculum, along with a comparison to Irish language
>> (Gaeilge) videos we have made. Looking forward to your feedback!
>>
>>
>> http://blog.whereareyourkeys.org/2011/05/12/building-a-video-curriculum-for-an-endangered-language/
>>
>> yrs,
>> Willem
>>
>>



--
Heidi Harley
University of Arizona
Department of Linguistics
Douglass 200E
Tucson, AZ 85721-0028
tel. 520-820-7875 (c)
tel. 520-626-3554 (o)
fax. 520-626-9014
http://linguistics.arizona.edu/~hharley/