Apertium Subtitles

Apertium Subtitles is a program which can be used to translate subtitles.

Currently, the program is in its early stages and it will take some time before it becomes fully usable. But if you are a developer with some knowledge of Java, you can already dive in.

An alternativ method is described on the page Translating subtitles.

Apertium Subtitles: Translation Form

What you need

• Java JDK 1.6
• A working Apertium 3.0 installation

Installing and running apertium-subtitles

Just point your Java-enabled browser to http://www.apertium.org/apertium-subtitles/launch.jnlp and start working.

Accept to trust the application (it is using your local installation of Apertium).

You can also save the link, rename it and put it in your start menu (nice for off-line use).

If this doesn't work for you, try typing from the command line:

javaws http://www.apertium.org/apertium-subtitles/launch.jnlp

Getting, compiling and running apertium-subtitles from source

Check out the source code (Netbeans project) from the subversion repository:

svn co https://apertium.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/apertium/trunk/apertium-tools/apertium-subtitles
cd apertium-subtitles
ant
ant run

To run it's easiest just to type 'ant run' or use Netbeans to compile.

Running apertium-subtitles

Running the binary: Just double-click on apertium-subtitles.jar

It this don't work, type

java -jar apertium-subtitles.jar

from the command line. Remember to use JDK 1.6 (java -version shows the version number)

Screenshots

Apertium Subtitles: Translation Form

Related software

• Apertium Viewer is a little program which can be used to view and edit the output of the various stages of an Apertium translation.
• Apertium View is a little program which can be used to view and edit the output of the various stages of an Apertium translation.
• Apertium Tolk is a program which translates as you type.