mbigatti / subtle

Improve your knowledge of the english language by learning new words used in your favourite TV Shows and movies.

Subtle

Improve your knowledge of the english language by learning new words used in your favourite TV Shows and movies

Subtle is a simple Ruby command-line program that analyze SubRip subtitles files. It extracts all the unique words and check these agains a local dictionary of common words. The entries not found in the dictionary are translated from English to Italian (or a language of your choice).

Installation

1. Download the subtle.rb script and the dictionary.txtfile;
2. Install the Google API gem $ gem install google-api-client;
3. Obtain a key from Google to use their API;
4. Write the key in a filename called api.key;
5. Enable billing on Google Developer Console to be able to call the Translate API;

Usage

Run the script with the following command:

$ subtle.rb filename.srt

The program produces to file output:

• filename.srt.dictionary.txt with the list of new words, that can be manually added to the main dictionary;
• filename.srt.translations.txtwith the list of translations as showed in the screenshot above.

Contact

http://bigatti.it
@mbigatti