Building the Ideal Online Video Curriculum For Endangered Languages Using WAYK

[Nick Thieberger]

The free software Elan (http://www.lat-mpi.eu/tools/elan/) is for
transcribing media with time-alignment, and exports to subtitle
format. The added benefit is that you get a transcript file that can
be archived together with the media (thinking about how to access this
in the future).

Nick

On 13 May 2011 01:41, Heidi Harley <hharley at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> 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/
>
>
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