Get phrases from ASS/SRT subtitles

[devdouglasonofre]

Improvement suggestion Extract text from ASS/SRT subtitles.

Why? For Poem/Novel/Song Lyrics, the phrase extraction works like a charm. But in the case of subtitles files, copying text from there may be cumbersome and time consuming. Having a automated subtitle to CR phrase will save a lot of time.

Use case: I want to mine the vocabulary of an anime/drama/movie straight from the subtitles.

[devdouglasonofre]

This library may be useful.

[sheodox]

I actually have another project that deals with subtitles called Jimaku Player and I've written my own parser and renderer for ASS and SRT https://github.com/sheodox/jimaku-player

I'm not sure what you use to watch anime, but if you use VRV or Crunchyroll you could use that and watch anime there with your SRT/ASS file. If you click on a subtitle it will search it on Jisho so you could use that to get your subtitles into CR. I had planned on building in better integration which skips Jisho and just adds it right to CR.

I do like the idea of supporting importing phrases from subtitles or something directly though. I'll think about it.

[devdouglasonofre]

Just tested the Jimaku and works wonderfully. It's like the Anacreon, but without the need to have 3 things open to start mining. Great tool.

There is a way to get the entire subtitles for said episode in the Jimaku without having to watch the entire episode? I mean, I want to mine it before watching, so with the entire subtitles parsed to plain text, I would just paste in the CR and starting mining from there.

[devdouglasonofre]

By the way, another suggestion: a button to delete all phrases without having to export to Anki.

[sheodox]

Yeah the subtitle thing is a great idea. I'll put it on my todo list.

By the way, another suggestion: a button to delete all phrases without having to export to Anki.

I actually have that already, but it's kind of hidden. If you click your profile picture in the top right corner and go to Settings, then the Stats tab, there's a delete all button! I'll probably put that in a more obvious place somewhere.

[devdouglasonofre]

Thanks for pointing out!

[sheodox]

@devdouglasonofre I just deployed an update that adds this functionality, try it out!!

Now when you're viewing the phrase list there's a + Import Phrases button that will let you choose either plain text or subtitles. If you choose subtitles you can upload a .srt/.vtt/.ass/.ssa file and it will give you a list of all the subtitles in there and you can pick what you want to add.

I also moved both of those buttons from the Stats page to a '...' button on the phrase list's toolbar.

[devdouglasonofre]

Amazing work! Tested with an SRT file and worked like a charm!

However, when I tried with an .ass:

This is the .ass file that I was trying to import: grisaia kaijutsu 1.txt (Converted to txt because GitHub don't allow the upload of .ass files. But the content is the same)

[sheodox]

Hey good catch! That subtitle file has an extra blank line in amongst the subtitles and my parser got confused. I fixed it now though so it should be able to handle that!`

[devdouglasonofre]

Working perfectly now! Thanks a lot for you hard work!

[sheodox]

Nice!! You're welcome, and thanks to you too for the good ideas!