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Does anyone know of any software that will read subtitles AS I watch an episode of Anime? (self.Blind)
submitted by Jrockten
Is there any piece of software that can automatically recognize and read English subtitles AS I watch a foreign anime on the SAME device? I can somewhat use Seeing AI, but that’s finicky, and it gets tiresome having to pause every 2 seconds and hold up my phone. I can’t really enjoy the show like that. :/
Ideally, I would watch an English dub, but those don’t always exist. I still want to experience these shows though.
This would also help a lot for video games (RPGs) that have a lot of reading.
I use Mac and iOS.
EDIT: this program would require optical text recognition. Unfortunately, I don’t think there exists any program like this currently for some reason. I think it would help a lot of people tho. Therefore, is there a platform where I can make this issue known to where it can hopefully reach a team of developers who would be able to consider it? or is there another optical text reading software with a contact email that I can reach out to and request this feature?
Ideally, I would watch an English dub, but those don’t always exist. I still want to experience these shows though.
This would also help a lot for video games (RPGs) that have a lot of reading.
I use Mac and iOS.
EDIT: this program would require optical text recognition. Unfortunately, I don’t think there exists any program like this currently for some reason. I think it would help a lot of people tho. Therefore, is there a platform where I can make this issue known to where it can hopefully reach a team of developers who would be able to consider it? or is there another optical text reading software with a contact email that I can reach out to and request this feature?
TurtleProphet420 5 points 1y ago
Unfortunately this works only on windows but, you can make a VM and test it, I use a media player called PotPlayer, it has a accessibility menu where you can set your screen reader to read the subs or the default windows TTS Engine.
JudgeSavings 1 points 1y ago
ok i gotta try this
kotyy 4 points 1y ago
If you use VLC, it seems to support this, per this forum post: https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?t=145522
As the other user pointed out, it required the subs to be in a file, not hard coded in the video. A sub file is essentially a text file with time codes, so that text can be used for a speech synthesizer, but hard coded subs would require optical character recognition to convert the sub images to text that can be synthesized.
Hope this helps you.
As the other user pointed out, it required the subs to be in a file, not hard coded in the video. A sub file is essentially a text file with time codes, so that text can be used for a speech synthesizer, but hard coded subs would require optical character recognition to convert the sub images to text that can be synthesized.
Hope this helps you.
Jrockten [OP] 1 points 1y ago
Hm, I don’t think so. everything I’ve watched has been hard-cuted into the video, so optical recognition is essential. I appreciate the attempt though, thanks.
I might look to see if there’s a way I can contact the Seeing AI team to request this feature, but I think that app is made by Microsoft so I’m doubtful I’ll get any kind of response.
I might look to see if there’s a way I can contact the Seeing AI team to request this feature, but I think that app is made by Microsoft so I’m doubtful I’ll get any kind of response.
audiovault_net 2 points 1y ago
Subs text subs for most shows even anime are available online, so you could possibly use those in conjunction with an app like the pot player and or VLC as suggested above.
There's an NVDA addon that can also do OCR on the fly as it were, but you'd need to fiddle with setting screen borders and such, and again, not for MAC OS or Ios, although voiceover can if the player in question supports it and has subs to begin with can read them automatically as long as you have the setting enabled
hth
There's an NVDA addon that can also do OCR on the fly as it were, but you'd need to fiddle with setting screen borders and such, and again, not for MAC OS or Ios, although voiceover can if the player in question supports it and has subs to begin with can read them automatically as long as you have the setting enabled
hth
lvlint67 4 points 1y ago
From a programming perspective, it'd be easiest if the app had access to the underlying caption files. A video with subtitles just embedded in (graphically) is more difficult since it's real time optical character recognition.
Jrockten [OP] 2 points 1y ago
Yeah, that’s why I wasn’t sure. Someone needs to get on that though, I think it would help a lot of people, either visually impaired… Or just lazy, lol.
(…and have it be available on all platforms. :/ )
I don’t know anything about programming, but it seems like it would use a lot of the same code as the Seeing AI app. Only it would be looking at your Devices Display rather than using your devices camera.
Perhaps it could help the program if the user first cropped out a small window where the subtitles would appear on the display in order to help minimize the amount of irrelevant noise the program would be attempting to scan for text.
(…and have it be available on all platforms. :/ )
I don’t know anything about programming, but it seems like it would use a lot of the same code as the Seeing AI app. Only it would be looking at your Devices Display rather than using your devices camera.
Perhaps it could help the program if the user first cropped out a small window where the subtitles would appear on the display in order to help minimize the amount of irrelevant noise the program would be attempting to scan for text.
ginsenshi 2 points 1y ago
If you have a iPhone 10 S, 10 or newer VoiceOver recognition does a decent job of reading subtitles just have to listen to it describe images also but it works in a pinch
TechnicalPragmatist 1 points 1y ago
Interesting thread.
SightlessBastard 1 points 1y ago
How do you watch the episode? Do you have a video file off-line available? If not, on which platform do you watch anime?
If it is an off-line file, what kind of file is it? How are the subtitles embedded? Under the right circumstances, you could use an app called NPlayer. That player can read certain subtitles. It is not free though.
If it is an off-line file, what kind of file is it? How are the subtitles embedded? Under the right circumstances, you could use an app called NPlayer. That player can read certain subtitles. It is not free though.
Jrockten [OP] 1 points 1y ago
They’re always online files with subtitles embedded into the video.
SightlessBastard 3 points 1y ago
So, you’re watching on Netflix? Because the Netflix app actually read subtitles. On iOS at least.
Jrockten [OP] 1 points 1y ago
that’s good to know if I find a show on Netflix I wanna watch,
But nah, I mostly watch different websites online
But this program would also be helpful for video games with a lot of reading as well. So optical text Recognition would be necessary for that
But nah, I mostly watch different websites online
But this program would also be helpful for video games with a lot of reading as well. So optical text Recognition would be necessary for that
SightlessBastard 1 points 1y ago
Depending on what site you use to watch, JDownloader might have a plugin for it. No idea though, if that’s accessible on the Mac. To my knowledge, there is no way to read subtitles directly from the stream.
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