{"id":4888,"date":"2021-02-06T15:52:32","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T15:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2021-02-06T15:52:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T15:52:32","slug":"creative-craigard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2021\/02\/06\/creative-craigard\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Craigard!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Our Craigard film was the first we ever made, and we keep returning to it for inspiration!<\/p>\n

This week\u2019s exciting news, following our posts last Friday<\/a> and Saturday<\/a>, is the addition of optional subtitles to the Island Voices Gaelic videos on our YouTube channel<\/a>. When we asked who would be interested in such a development on our social media last weekend, the positive reactions quickly came back in their hundreds. (Some folk also wanted the reassurance that this would not mean the withdrawal of un-subtitled videos or of the Clilstore transcripts \u2013 we have no intention of doing either!)<\/p>\n

Given the strongly expressed enthusiasm, the response from the Speech Recognition research project<\/a> team has been instant and impressive. Systems have been set up to enable the automatic subtitling of all the Gaelic output on our Island Voices Videos YouTube channel, and all 20 films in Series One<\/a> are already done \u2013 with the Craigard documentary in first place on the playlist<\/a>. Keep an eye out for swift progress on Series Two and other films in due course!<\/p>\n

The way in is through the CC \u201cClosed Caption\u201d button. To see any subtitles at all, that needs to be on. (So the default viewing remains clear of any textual additions.) You should now see the Gaelic subtitles.<\/p>\n

But that’s not all – once you have them on, there\u2019s another clever little trick that enables Google Translate to work on them. If you go into Settings (next to CC) and then click on \u201csubtitles\u201d you\u2019ll find an \u201cauto-translate\u201d option, which then opens a wide range of languages into which the Gaelic subtitles can be translated.<\/p>\n

Machine translation remains an imperfect science, of course, so any expectation of error-free renderings will inevitably be disappointed. Nevertheless, even without this extra facility, Gaelic learners stand to benefit just from using the Gaelic subtitles alone as an extra support for their eyes to help their ears recognise what they\u2019re hearing.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s the Craigard film again \u2013 this time with the new multilingual subtitle functionality added.<\/p>\n