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Video and Captioned Translations on AWS

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  • John 1 year, 2 months ago

    Hi,

    I’m trying to display video with translated captions from AWS

    In AWS I created a folder and uploaded the video (mp4) and two translation text files (vtt and srt) to that folder.

    Adding that new video to FV player I enter the URL of the video and the video plays but no translation subtitles appear. If I enter the url of the folder I get an error.

    I successfully tested locally with VLC. I created a folder on my desktop containing the mp4 and 2 text translation files. If I drag the mp4 video file into the VLC media player, the video plays perfectly with the translated caption.

    Any suggestions on what I need to do to get this to work on AWS?

    Thanks!

    John

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  • John 1 year ago

    Hi,

    I was making this more complicated than necessary.
    I found the answer in the FV Player Documentation.

    https://foliovision.com/player/features/accessibility/interactive-video-transcript#appearance

    Thanks!

    Martin 1 year ago

    Hello John,

    Thank you for the follow up.

    It seems to me you don’t have to put the video subtitles up on AWS unless it really suits your workflow.

    You have to provide these URLs for each video separately, entering just a folder name won’t work.

    Are you trying to make it easier to pick these videos along with their subtitles when using the FV Player Media Browser as seen here? https://foliovision.com/player/getting-started/media-video-library-browser

    Thanks,
    Martin

    John 1 year ago

    Hi Martin,

    My challenge was to put subtitles in some our videos with a Spanish translation of the spoken English in the video. This is the solution I came up with. If you have suggestions about how to improve this workflow please feel free to share.

    The source video (English) is in an AWS bucket. I use Amazon Transcribe to first create a transcription file (vtt), and download that transcription to my desktop. I then use Google Translate to create a Spanish translation file (vtt) from the transcription file.

    Copying the URL of the video on AWS, I add a new video in FV Player. In the SUBTITLES tab, I upload the Spanish translation vtt file.

    I started my learning curve watching Amazon’s tutorial about creating a transcription and while I could get the video and translation to work together in VLC, I couldn’t quite figure out how to do this in AWS.

    Once I read through the FVPlayer tutorial l had a clear idea about what needed to be done.

    Here is the Amazon tutorial: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/transcribe/latest/dg/subtitles.html

    Thank you,

    John

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    Martin 1 year ago

    Hello John,

    Thank you for providing the details.

    I think ideally we could integrate with some transcription service as having to do all of that in AWS should like a lot of manual work. It could be surely automated in AWS, but it gets complex.

    Thanks,
    Martin

    Alec Kinnear 1 year ago
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    Hi John,

    Thanks for sharing your process. I’m glad our documentation helped. Hopefully someone else who wishes to automate translation will be benefit from your post.

    Let us know if you come up with any improvements to the process. AWS does have a good use case after all.

    Thanks, Alec

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