Project Threepio (Star Wars OOT subtitles) — Page 13

Molly said:

inb4 jokes about Syfy in Poland.

Someone sensible convinced them to broadcast under their old name in Poland, Sci-fi Channel. :D

PM sent.

Just a little update for thread-watchers so they know what's happening after that last page of posts.

First off, we found official subtitles for Polish, Greek, Turkish, and European Portuguese.  This means improvements for Turkish (especially ROTJ), promoting Greek from unverified to verified, adding a long-absent Portuguese dialect, and possibly some minor improvement for Polish.  Some of this work is already done.

Then, there's the effort I have taken to calling "Operation Eyestrain".  The goal is to no longer have any graphical-only subtitles--using a mixture of our newfound OCR method, and a painfully slow phase of manual transcription and correction.  Japanese is furthest along, thanks to Sadako.  Mandarin/Traditional and Cantonese are probably in a very good state since our OCR software seemed to handle Chinese characters very well, but some manual correction is undoubtedly necessary, and I'm hoping I can lean on Sadako for that as well.  The surprise was with Thai, which I thought would be easy due to it being an alphabet with a much more manageable number of character permutations than Chinese, but the OCR fell down hard on this text, and it's hard to find a single line that doesn't require at least one manual correction, if not several.  Feallan is taking two films and I'm taking one.  I predict this will be the slowest of the jobs, since neither of us know the language at all.

Operation Eyestrain. I like it.

Kinky

That made my day.

Now those Osram lightbulb commercials featuring Triumph the Comic Insult Dog make so much more sense.

I suppose now would be a good time to mention that if anyone has access to any graphical subtitles (such as would be found on a DVD or Blu-ray), even Special Edition subtitles, for any languages that this project either doesn't have or hasn't verified, I'd be extremely interested in seeing them.

For example, I believe the 2011 Blu-rays have Icelandic subtitles, and probably a few other interesting options too.

Actually, the BD not only has Icelandic subs, but Arabic as well. I have no idea why haven't we think of it sooner. It may be the same subtitle we have, but complete.

Anyone willing to help? Extracting subtitles is easy.

Yeah, I can do this.  You don't need me to OCR though do you?  I don't think I have the patience to try to do Arabic, though I could probably manage Icelandic, if necessary.

No, raw graphical files would be great--I have a great OCR system set up that works for lots of languages*--but if it's possible to label the languages, that would be helpful.

You can check the first post for the languages we don't have "verified" yet--but don't worry about Greek or European Portuguese, because those are already in the works.

* EDIT: except Thai :-\

I wonder how well would it do with Arabic. If as good as with Thai, you might want to reconsider your "No graphical-only subs" plan...

Oh, if it deals with Arabic just as bad as Thai, then we're stuck with the fansubs we already have and can't use the graphical ones at all.  SE subs have to be retimed, and while that might be technically doable with graphical subs, I need text subs+Google translate to figure out where everything needs to go.  I'll hold onto them in case the situation changes, of course.

My Blu Rays don't have Arabic or Icelandic subs.  Sorry.  I have the region A versions.  I'm guessing there on the region B release?

Yeah, that's probably region B. Too bad. :(

Ah, too bad.  I'm assuming no other new & exciting languages? (yeah, I know, we've got the Region A market pretty much covered).  Thanks for looking.  Next question... anyone have the Region B Blu-rays?

Actually, it looks like there were multiple Region B releases of the Blu-rays for various language markets.

It looks like I'd be most interested in: the German, Russian, and Hong Kong Blu-ray releases, which would give us a nice range of additional languages to work with or improve.

The "interesting languages" breakdown seems to go like this (question marks indicate I got inconsistent search results):

Italian/Russian BD:
Bulgarian
Croatian
?Czech
Romanian
Russian
?Slovak
Slovenian

German/Spanish BD:
Hebrew
Icelandic
?Arabic
?Mandarin (Simplified)

Hong Kong BD:
Korean

I'll contact some people here to see if we can get anywhere with these.

Hell yes! Check the subtitle options, and see if any match the languages listed above.  If any of them do, I'd like to see the BD-SUP files for these (the raw subtitle stream from the BD, no need to OCR).  PM me if you have questions.