This is an experimental tool to help language-learners exploit parallel subtitles in various ways. Among other things, it can generate bilingual subtitles, review pages, and decks of Anki cards:

Here's the documentation:

• Overview and user documentation
• API documentation (unstable)

Example usage:

```sh

Create a bilingual subtitle file.

substudy combine episode0101.es.srt episode0101.en.srt \

episode0101.bilingual.srt

Export images, audio clips and subtitles as a web page.

substudy export review episode0101.mkv \ episode0101.es.srt episode0101.en.srt ```

Installing ffmpeg

To use substudy, you'll need to have the ffmpeg command-line tools installed on your system. You can find official packages for most platforms at the FFmpeg site. But here are some instructions for specific platforms:

```sh

Ubuntu 16.04 and later.

sudo apt update sudo apt install ffmpeg

MacOS X with brew installed.

brew install ffmpeg ```

If you're running Windows, or if you're a Mac user who's never heard of brew, then you'll probably want to download your packages from the FFmpeg site. Note that these configurations haven't been tested much, so if you run into problems, please report an issue so that we can fix it.

Installing substudy using binary releases

The easiest way to install substudy is to use an official binary release for your platform. Download the appropriate *.zip file, open it, and install the binary somewhere your operating system can find it. Here are some instructions for common platforms:

```sh

Linux x86_64 and MacOS X.

unzip substudy-*.zip sudo cp substudy /usr/local/bin ```

The Linux binaries are statically linked, so they should work on any reaonably modern x86_64 distribution. For other architectures, you can try to install using cargo as described below.

For Windows, you'll have to figure it out yourself for now. But if you do, please file an issue and tell us how you did it, so that we can update the instructions!

Installing substudy using cargo

You can also install substudy is using the cargo install command. To use this, you'll need a recent version of Rust. If you already have rustup installed, you can run:

sh rustup update stable

If you've never heard of rustup, you can look at the instructions on the rustup page, or you can just run the following:

```sh

Mac and Linux only. Windows see above.

curl https://sh.rustup.rs -sSf | sh ```

Once that is set up, you can then install substudy by running:

sh cargo install substudy

Building substudy

Assuming you have Rust and the other dependencies installed as described above, you can run:

sh git clone https://github.com/emk/substudy.git cd substudy cargo build

If this fails, please feel free to submit an issue.

Using substudy as a library

You can find API documentation on the Rust CI site. Note that all APIs are experimental and subject to change. If you want to use substudy as a library in your own tools, you're encouraged to do so, but it might be worth letting me know which APIs you're using so that I can stabilize them.

Contributing

Please feel welcome to send me a pull request or submit an issue!

Make sure everything continues to work with your changes:

sh cargo test

Things which I'd love to see substudy support include:

• Creating various sorts of parallel media: subtitles, Anki cards, etc.
• Automatic vobsub to *.srt conversion, using OCR and character databases. There are several open source Windows tools which tackle this, but it should be theoretically possible to do a lot better.

Things which I'll probably merge if they come with clean code and solid test suites:

• Better character set conversion.
• Various sorts of subtitle cleanups.
• Formats other than *.srt.
• Better algorithms for repairing timings and alignment.

I'm happy to leave serious, interactive subtitle editing to Subtitle Edit, and to focus on cases related to language learning, and to things which are convenient to call from the command line. I'd also be happy to have implementations of the most useful subs2srs features in command-line form—it's a wonderful and useful program, but it has too many configuration options and it requires too much work using external utilities.

License

This program is released into the public domain using the CC0 public domain declaration. Our test suites contain a half-dozen lines of subtitles from copyrighted TV shows, which should presumably fall under de minimis, fair use or equivalent exceptions in most jurisdictions.