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SubSync: Subtitle Speech Synchronizer

130 points by severine 5y ago

rspoerri 5y ago
broken url
- dang 5y ago
  Fixed now.
mkl 5y ago
Working link: https://subsync.online/ https://subsync.online/
- nerdponx 5y ago
  The original posted URL was https://subsync.online/http://localhost:4000/ https://subsync.online/http://localhost:4000/ What a strange mistake! Was it just a copy/paste error?
  - stronglikedan 5y ago
    > Was it just a copy/paste error? Occam's Razor says, "yes!"
scrollaway 5y ago
Is this yours, severine? It blows my mind that this isn't a standard feature in video players. Especially Plex, which can download subtitles from OpenSubtitles, but even though the text is perfect you have to either wade through a bunch of different subtitles or manually fix the timing for every video through a painful interface in 50ms increments.
- severine 5y ago
  > Is this yours, severine? No, not even related. I had to do the task today, found it through DDG and had success, so I shared it. I have a hunch this is going to be a common feature in some video players, and it has interesting possibilities!
joshstrange 5y ago
Thank god someone finally built this, I've been kicking around this for forever in my head (glue together some STT library and logic to adjust subtitle offsets) but I never had the time. Really I wish Plex would just build this in, it's right up their alley. Movies aren't terrible since you can adjust the offset once (still a huge PITA and I feel like a toddler making an "L" with my hands to tell right from left when it comes to knowing "Do I need to increase or decrease the offset to fix this?", "Ok, I saw the subs before I heard it so I need to increase the offset", etc). TV shows are a whole other cluster. To be fair 80%+ of the time I have no issues with subs on my TV shows but if it's off then you can plan on readjusting after almost every commercial break. I used to watch Letterkenny and I needed subs for that show to keep up but the only ones I could find were off and after each commercial I needed to adjust them by over 5 seconds which, at 50ms intervals, is a massive PITA.
- sa1 5y ago
  Several of these tools over the last couple of years, I use https://github.com/kaegi/alass https://github.com/kaegi/alass. Maybe you could manually setup a cron job over your Plex Library.
  - joshstrange 5y ago
    Yeah, that's what I really need to do, just let it crawl through my library. Because I'm super lazy I want there to be a *arr project to manage this all for me and let me set things to "need fixed" and have it leave alone things I know are correct. I had high hopes for Bazarr but for some reason every time I've tried it it's fallen over after a few days , this would be a cool feature for Bazarr to add.
    - sa1 5y ago
      I haven't tried bazarr, but the feature seems to exist: https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr/blob/master/frontend/src/Settings/Subtitles/index.tsx#L349 https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr/blob/master/frontend...
remram 5y ago
Similar tool: https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync
tyingq 5y ago
Oh, that's great. The closed caption space is highly frustrating. One example is any film that has its own occasional subtitles. Like a movie that's mostly english will sometimes put english translations of the occasional foreign language being spoken. Then, the actual closed captioning will superimpose the very NOT helpful [Speaking Foreign Language] on top of the words I want to see. Or randomly, the words go to the top of the screen, covering people's faces. Then, all sorts of other issues like two words being stuck together, a homonym being used when it's clearly not the right one, terrible typos, etc. I suppose it's just not a priority, and you get what you pay for. I get it when it's something like local news. But for a movie that will be watched for decades, it's a shame.
gsich 5y ago
I want the same for audio. Anyone knows a tool for that?
totetsu 5y ago
Isn't this what forced alignment tools do?
pwinnski 5y ago
Oh, the time and trouble I would have saved! Now I'm set for the future, thanks!

130 points by severine 5y ago

rspoerri 5y ago

broken url

dang 5y ago
Fixed now.

mkl 5y ago

Working link: https://subsync.online/ https://subsync.online/

nerdponx 5y ago
The original posted URL was https://subsync.online/http://localhost:4000/ https://subsync.online/http://localhost:4000/ What a strange mistake! Was it just a copy/paste error?
- stronglikedan 5y ago
  > Was it just a copy/paste error? Occam's Razor says, "yes!"

scrollaway 5y ago

Is this yours, severine? It blows my mind that this isn't a standard feature in video players. Especially Plex, which can download subtitles from OpenSubtitles, but even though the text is perfect you have to either wade through a bunch of different subtitles or manually fix the timing for every video through a painful interface in 50ms increments.

severine 5y ago
> Is this yours, severine? No, not even related. I had to do the task today, found it through DDG and had success, so I shared it. I have a hunch this is going to be a common feature in some video players, and it has interesting possibilities!

joshstrange 5y ago

Thank god someone finally built this, I've been kicking around this for forever in my head (glue together some STT library and logic to adjust subtitle offsets) but I never had the time. Really I wish Plex would just build this in, it's right up their alley. Movies aren't terrible since you can adjust the offset once (still a huge PITA and I feel like a toddler making an "L" with my hands to tell right from left when it comes to knowing "Do I need to increase or decrease the offset to fix this?", "Ok, I saw the subs before I heard it so I need to increase the offset", etc). TV shows are a whole other cluster. To be fair 80%+ of the time I have no issues with subs on my TV shows but if it's off then you can plan on readjusting after almost every commercial break. I used to watch Letterkenny and I needed subs for that show to keep up but the only ones I could find were off and after each commercial I needed to adjust them by over 5 seconds which, at 50ms intervals, is a massive PITA.

sa1 5y ago
Several of these tools over the last couple of years, I use https://github.com/kaegi/alass https://github.com/kaegi/alass. Maybe you could manually setup a cron job over your Plex Library.
- joshstrange 5y ago
  Yeah, that's what I really need to do, just let it crawl through my library. Because I'm super lazy I want there to be a *arr project to manage this all for me and let me set things to "need fixed" and have it leave alone things I know are correct. I had high hopes for Bazarr but for some reason every time I've tried it it's fallen over after a few days , this would be a cool feature for Bazarr to add.
  - sa1 5y ago
    I haven't tried bazarr, but the feature seems to exist: https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr/blob/master/frontend/src/Settings/Subtitles/index.tsx#L349 https://github.com/morpheus65535/bazarr/blob/master/frontend...

remram 5y ago

Similar tool: https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync https://github.com/smacke/ffsubsync

tyingq 5y ago

Oh, that's great. The closed caption space is highly frustrating. One example is any film that has its own occasional subtitles. Like a movie that's mostly english will sometimes put english translations of the occasional foreign language being spoken. Then, the actual closed captioning will superimpose the very NOT helpful [Speaking Foreign Language] on top of the words I want to see. Or randomly, the words go to the top of the screen, covering people's faces. Then, all sorts of other issues like two words being stuck together, a homonym being used when it's clearly not the right one, terrible typos, etc. I suppose it's just not a priority, and you get what you pay for. I get it when it's something like local news. But for a movie that will be watched for decades, it's a shame.

gsich 5y ago

I want the same for audio. Anyone knows a tool for that?

totetsu 5y ago

Isn't this what forced alignment tools do?

pwinnski 5y ago

Oh, the time and trouble I would have saved! Now I'm set for the future, thanks!