create srt from japanese to english

[miltk]

hi guys

i can get my hands on a japanese movie but it only has subs in japanese

i want to create an english srt. there must be a 3rd party program that does this ,,,right?

i have handbrake and i have makeMKV... and ive just downloaded shutter encoder

i am by no means adept at subtitling, but ive been doing the makeMKV>handbrake for years


thx all,,,,,milt

[junah]

Use some LLM based AI translators? I dont see many other options

[StainlessS]

You could also try this,
Standalone Faster-Whisper-XXL - AI auto-transcription-translation :- https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=184859
Convert Japanese Audio to English srt.

I've used it to convert Spanish to English, I presume that Japanese is supported.

EDIT: Subtitle Edit also now supports Whisper, Menu/Video/Audio To Text(Whisper...)/
also other translate options in SubtitleEdit but I aint tried them.

[miltk]

You could also try this,
Standalone Faster-Whisper-XXL - AI auto-transcription-translation :- https://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=184859
Convert Japanese Audio to English srt.

I've used it to convert Spanish to English, I presume that Japanese is supported.

EDIT: Subtitle Edit also now supports Whisper, Menu/Video/Audio To Text(Whisper...)/
also other translate options in SubtitleEdit but I aint tried them.


i wish i understood the step by step of this, but this is above my paygrade. to start, i wouldn't know how to begin

the audio is in the vob files, right?

[StainlessS]

Well, if you can make an MKV, then can use eg DgIndexNV (now free, used to be paid) to simultaneously extract (from MKV) audio files AND subtitles as images in *.SUP file.
Can use whisper (standalone or SubtitleEdit) to convert audio to english *.srt.
And/or SubtitleEdit to convert SUP to japanese *.srt text files and then one of the Subtitle Edit options to convert srt files to english (I've never done this type of conversion).

EDIT Audio to english *.srt might be easier (would be easier for me, anyway).

[miltk]

thanks all. i ended up using subtitle edit

my needs are uncomplicated. just simple japanese-english translation. AI helped me, although prone to errors i got the gist of it

most of the subttle edit defaults were fine. it was a simple japanese romance so no heavy lifting