{"id":4862,"date":"2021-01-30T10:56:15","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=4862"},"modified":"2021-01-30T10:56:15","modified_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:56:15","slug":"same-time-sub-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2021\/01\/30\/same-time-sub-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Same-time Sub-titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gaelic-asr-demos.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4861 size-medium\" title=\"Subtitled Island Voices videos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peatsubtitles.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peatsubtitles.jpg 1433w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peatsubtitles-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peatsubtitles-1024x745.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/peatsubtitles-768x558.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Archie Campbell\u2019s peatcutting skills and lore \u2013 well-known to Island Voices followers \u2013 were given a sparkling fresh polish in the progress report from the Gaelic <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ed.ac.uk\/garg\/2021\/01\/27\/automatic-speech-recognition-for-scottish-gaelic-background-and-update\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Automatic Speech Recognition<\/a> project being led by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/profile\/william-lamb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Will Lamb<\/a> \u2013 another<a href=\"https:\/\/multidict.net\/cs\/734\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Island Voices veteran<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the overall aim of the project is more ambitious still, the new Gaelic audio alignment tool was unveiled as a step along the way, using videos from our Series 2 collections, particularly featuring the ever-popular Peatcutting documentary plus the talking head interview clips of Archie talking about the work and associated social customs.<\/p>\n<p>Will\u2019s tweet shows a short sample clip.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Example of the new <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Gaelic?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Gaelic<\/a> audio alignment tool here, which takes a script and automatically time stamps it against an audio recording. Voila &#8211; automatic subtitles! (Prize for anyone who guesses what Archie is talking about\ud83d\ude09)<\/p>\n<p>How we did it: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qpIs54kT1G\">https:\/\/t.co\/qpIs54kT1G<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ds3ZaTb7Lo\">pic.twitter.com\/ds3ZaTb7Lo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Will Lamb \ud83c\udf31 (@UilleamUan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UilleamUan\/status\/1355159503889698820?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>But you can see the videos in full (plus another documentary sample looking at Sabhal M\u00f2r Ostaig) by following <a href=\"http:\/\/gaelic-asr-demos.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this link<\/a>. (Clips 724-726 for the peatcutting, 746 for SMO.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/gaelic-asr-demos.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/index.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4866 size-full\" title=\"Subtitled Island Voices videos\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/picnicpeats.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/picnicpeats.jpg 1431w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/picnicpeats-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/picnicpeats-1024x548.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/picnicpeats-768x411.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 595px) 100vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This raises an interesting question for Island Voices, going forward. We\u2019ve generally avoided adding sub-titles to our videos \u2013 with some specific exceptions \u2013 though we have made a point of supplying scrollable read-along Clilstore transcripts in almost all cases. This latest innovation suggests on-screen same-time sub-titles may be about to become an additional option \u2013 for our Gaelic films at least. What do our followers think of that?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archie Campbell\u2019s peatcutting skills and lore \u2013 well-known to Island Voices followers \u2013 were given a sparkling fresh polish in the progress report from the Gaelic Automatic Speech Recognition project being led by Will Lamb \u2013 another Island Voices veteran. While the overall aim of the project is more ambitious still, the new Gaelic audio &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2021\/01\/30\/same-time-sub-titles\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Same-time Sub-titles<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-call","category-community","category-research","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}