Is there somewhere to download subs2srs decks? I've found this page, but almost all of the links are dead.

http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Sub2srs_decks


Eventually I would like to make my own subs2srs decks, but I think it will take me quite a while to figure out how. But in the meantime, I'm really liking the decks that I've been able to download. I just need more basic, beginner decks.

A lot of people seem intimidated by subs2srs, especially when they see all the comments in the thread of people trying to get it working on Linux or Macs or whatever, but it's in fact very easy. I recommend just snagging the English and Japanese subs for a single episode of an anime you have, from kitsunekko, and using that to go through the step-by-step instructions cb4960's provided (I only chose anime as a quick trial to get you started, since it's a small file and easy to find). It'll take less than 5 minutes, I swear.*

*Actual time may vary.

I think Nukemarine might have a video up, also? Though I think he use a dorama rather than an anime for an example:

Yeah, what nest0r said. I thought it would be much harder than it was, so I was looking for premade decks. Then last week I downloaded the Death Note deck only to find it has no English in it! So I made my own from the first episode. Apart from the fact that I had to retime the subs (not the fault of subs2srs), it was really easy and the whole process took less than 15 mins.

And once you get familiar with it, you'll get much faster. It takes me .034 seconds.

Also, Blahah, for the record, did you have to retime it because both the Japanese and English subs were wrong (just making sure you didn't make the n00b mistake of not realizing you could use the timing for either of the two, as long as one is correct).

Yeah I had to retime it because the version of DN I downloaded only had hardcoded English subs, so I downloaded some English and Japanese ones from kitsunekko then retimed the Japanese using Aegisub. Also I had to edit the Japanese ones to remove a line of furigana which was stopping subs2srs from processing the line.

Great, good job, Blahah. Retiming, fixing furigana, Aegisub. The OP's probably run away by now. Real nice. Do you do children's birthday parties as well?

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How about the decks here?
http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Subs2srs

Maybe its the same as the list on the other site, I dunno. I tried one of the links and it worked.

the ones i uploaded are still up for sure: they're the ones with the
All the definitions/explanation are in Japanese.　

and i also uploaded the audio files of the episodes (not the whole episode, just the dialogue parts -- i used sub2srs to make an efficient audio file" http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?tid=2576&page=3)
http://www.mediafire.com/?4laew456eg2qi
it's like eespecially helpful for JIN with doing the deck if you hear the ep a couple times.. at least that's what i think.

nest0r Wrote:Great, good job, Blahah. Retiming, fixing furigana, Aegisub. The OP's probably run away by now. Real nice. Do you do children's birthday parties as well?

Haha, but unfortunately these issues crop up more often than not.

I've rarely found English and Japanese subs to match up on the first try, and it can be painful to correct the timings when part of the problem is that certain lines are split into multiple lines in one language that are kept as one in the other, or one sub group decided to put subtitles for the OP/ED lyrics and the other language's group ignored them, or subbed signposts and whatnot, etc...

An online repo of:

Jap subs file
Eng subs file
checksums of video files confirmed to match up
Name of group that released said video files

would be extremely useful.

At that point anyone can trivially use subs2srs to make the deck, have anki generate readings, use my glossing plugin, or do any other transformations on the deck as they wish.

Does anyone have a sub2srs deck of Final Fantasy Advent Children? That would be sooo suupaa-chou-kakkoii!

animehunter123 Wrote:Does anyone have a sub2srs deck of Final Fantasy Advent Children? That would be sooo suupaa-chou-kakkoii!

Mhh.. I think I still have it on my external hard drive. I'll try uploading it again tomorrow for you.

A site like that would be very cool, overture =) I was working on a site a bit like that until I got swamped with work on my games programming course =/ Maybe I can find a bit of time to start working on it again. Thing is, I'm rubbish at actual web design, So, it will most likely not look too pretty. But I can do the server side stuff with python / django so it would have pretty good integration with anki using libanki.

There are a lot of stuff on anki's shared decks. (sub2srs). Definitely very useful and your going to boost understanding/listening skills through the roof with that .

Zarxrax Wrote:How about the decks here?
http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Subs2srs

Maybe its the same as the list on the other site, I dunno. I tried one of the links and it worked.

Same as the other list. Almost all are dead.

I'd just find the sub files they were made from, buy the video, push it through Subs2Srs or retime it with mini-lyrics in 20 line pieces adding 20 cards from the video a day. You could probably build it back up pretty quickly (say 20 hours over 2 months.) While your at it run the subs through http://www.editpad.org and Rikia-chan the words you don't know. You can make a cram deck and pre-learn the vocab for the Subs2srs your making. That way you won't need the English subs for your video, you can just go J-J on that deck. It's only a small amount of work if you do it 20-30 lines a day.

P.s., a great idea is to save the editpad.org webpage in firefox or whatever, so you can use Rikaichan without an internet connection anytime. File>save page as... (in firefox)

nest0r Wrote:A lot of people seem intimidated by subs2srs, especially when they see all the comments in the thread of people trying to get it working on Linux or Macs or whatever, but it's in fact very easy. I recommend just snagging the English and Japanese subs for a single episode of an anime you have, from kitsunekko, and using that to go through the step-by-step instructions cb4960's provided (I only chose anime as a quick trial to get you started, since it's a small file and easy to find). It'll take less than 5 minutes, I swear.*

*Actual time may vary.

I think Nukemarine might have a video up, also? Though I think he use a dorama rather than an anime for an example:

Thank you, that's very encouraging.

Question though; is there a recommended method for using a DVD for subs2srs? That is, a method of extracting the soft subs and converting the video to a compatible format (or is the DVD format already compatible)?

Nukemarine's tutorials look very detailed, which will help a lot once I get to that stage.

animehunter123 Wrote:Does anyone have a sub2srs deck of Final Fantasy Advent Children? That would be sooo suupaa-chou-kakkoii!

Check on the rtk wiki ( http://rtkwiki.koohii.com/wiki/Subs2srs#Anime ). I re-uploaded them.

I thought I'd give your FF deck a shot but my tsv file seems to be lacking the English part. I must be missing a step. Any suggestions?

foodcubes Wrote:

nest0r Wrote:A lot of people seem intimidated by subs2srs, especially when they see all the comments in the thread of people trying to get it working on Linux or Macs or whatever, but it's in fact very easy. I recommend just snagging the English and Japanese subs for a single episode of an anime you have, from kitsunekko, and using that to go through the step-by-step instructions cb4960's provided (I only chose anime as a quick trial to get you started, since it's a small file and easy to find). It'll take less than 5 minutes, I swear.*

*Actual time may vary.

I think Nukemarine might have a video up, also? Though I think he use a dorama rather than an anime for an example:

Thank you, that's very encouraging.

Question though; is there a recommended method for using a DVD for subs2srs? That is, a method of extracting the soft subs and converting the video to a compatible format (or is the DVD format already compatible)?

Nukemarine's tutorials look very detailed, which will help a lot once I get to that stage.

The keywords afterdawn and doom9 pop into my head, I think those are websites useful for such things. But to be honest I don't think it's worth the bother, there's bazillions of videos and subtitles online already available for use via direct download sites. I believe there's a few threads though about converting your own stuff, if you do a forum search for DVD and subs2srs or somesuch.

Sub2srs is really good for building listening comprehension skills. Definitely recommend it for people wishing to build up those skills. For me, I'm finding I just need to srs a lot/read/listen/watch subs in jp. I'm finding that going back to something that was so hard in one point in time, turns out to be so easy after a while. It really shows you've gotten far/improved a lot.

kerosan41 Wrote:I thought I'd give your FF deck a shot but my tsv file seems to be lacking the English part. I must be missing a step. Any suggestions?

Sorry, there is no English part =( I just used a dictionary =0

The shared Deathnote deck also has no English. Just picture + audio + sentence on the front, nothing on answer card.

Still quite fun to go through!

EDIT: oh wait, the picture has subs built in (but bit too small to read at the moment). Can change the card to sentence text + audio front, picture + text + audio back, that would work.

Ok, so I think that I'm going to try my first subs2srs. I'm also thinking that maybe Dramas are better, since you can see real lip movement while they're talking, as well as real facial expressions, rather than graphical depictions of them. But hopefully the language won't be too advanced as compared to Anime.

Can someone recommend a downloadable Drama with basic Japanese, and both Japanese and English subtitles (as well a place to look for them if you know)?




On a related note, do you think it would be worthwhile to teach Anki and subs2srs to teachers and students in Japanese programs in schools? I could probably get a workshop going at my university if I learn how to do all this.

Blahah Wrote:Yeah, what nest0r said. I thought it would be much harder than it was, so I was looking for premade decks. Then last week I downloaded the Death Note deck only to find it has no English in it! So I made my own from the first episode. Apart from the fact that I had to retime the subs (not the fault of subs2srs), it was really easy and the whole process took less than 15 mins.

I've found the same thing for decks that were uploaded. If there was to be a library, standardized deck formats would be a good idea. Video or audio+images, Japanese text and English text. Users could then hide the english field if it bugs them, but at least it's there.

I would still be very happy to find some online decks with Japanese and English text. Right now I'm trying find and download a video for sub2srs, and just this is taking forever. So instead of studying, I'm spending all my time on hunting down vids.

BTW, did you say to search 'asiablorrents'? The first link is not asiablorrents, but asiaXorrents? (Where X equals a different letter). And you have to sign up to get the videos? I'm trying that site but no luck. I just get an address error on the videos.

@foodcubes - For films, see the ‘japanese subtitles for films’ thread; I think it might be easier to simply look at the filenames, then Google for those filenames to find the associated videos. This will turn up plenty of direct download links.

Others have mentioned d-addicts for subtitles, and likewise if you Google for the filenames you should turn up plenty of links.

By the way, I think it'd be great in the future if Anki and subs2srs are integrated into classes, but who knows if the world is ready yet.