Customizing autosub to caption TED Talks

RobertoMinelli commented 6 years ago

Dear @agermanidis,

I am Roberto Minelli and I am part of the Team that organizes TEDxLakeComo.

For the captioning process of TED Talks we have to follow a number of guidelines:

When a subtitle is longer than 42 characters, break it into two lines.
Never use more than two lines per subtitle.
Keep broken lines as close in length as possible.
Keep 'linguistic wholes' together when breaking lines.
Keep the subtitle reading speed at a maximum of 21 characters / second.
Compress subtitles over 21 characters / second. Try to preserve as much meaning as possible.

Is there any way to parametrize your tool to satisfy all (or most) of these guidelines?

Thank you very much, Roberto

gabriellluz commented 5 years ago

Hi, Mr Roberto.

Working for the most biased organization (TedTalks) in the planet? Sorry for that.

Answering to your issue, everything above can be done with SubtitleEdit. Also, SubtitleEdit is used for Netflix because it has some fixes that comply with Netflix quality standards.

RobertoMinelli commented 3 years ago

Oh man, I am so sorry I missed your reply!

I do not work for TED, I volounter for TEDxLakeComo, one of the many independent TED events around the world.

Anyway, @gabriellluz, would you be so kind to help me out? Are you referring to autosub or to SubtitleEdit?

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