On Mon, Aug 21, 2023 at 12:00 AM Johnny Jazeix <jaz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > Hi Johnny, > > Inspired by the accessibility goal, Promo had the idea of including > subtitles and closed captions for videos for several KDE projects > (Akademy interviews, GCompris videos like > https://tube.kockatoo.org/w/symxHCzUj9TA7LZoZagD9c...). > > I've created a repository which handles the conversion from subtitles > <=> po files for translators using KDE scripts > (https://invent.kde.org/jjazeix/srt2po) and Translate Toolkit. > There is also a script to upload the subtitles to the KDE peertube > instance. > > There could be several issues with translating only the text but I > still think it's worth it to be able to translate them using the usual > KDE workflow: > * if we want to display some lines longer because the translated text > takes more time to read; > * if we want to add extra texts at different times. > In order to workaround these issues, the project will also allow > translator to directly write the srt files instead of passing by a po > file. > All the srt files will be centralised here, which will avoid > translators to look for them. > > In which gitlab group would it be better to create this repository and > what would be the process to create it? Accessibility ou Utilities > seem good to me but as it will contain more data than scripts/code, > maybe there is a better place for it. > This isn't something that fits terribly well within our existing groupings, especially given it is mostly promotional content. The tooling itself that supports this should go to SDK I would say, as this is something that only a developer/translator/etc would use (never an actual user). In the absence of anything else, websites/ works well for the actual content itself given this will end up attached to videos we publish online. Cheers, Ben > > Cheers, > Johnny >
