Anybody here, who tried Google direct translation for a movie ? I used it yesterday for a SW which is only available in Italian on DVD (I can read Italian, but the spoken word is hard for me to translate). It’s not really the cream of the crop, but it made me understand nearly every single word, with some fails in translation of cause. I was looking for a tool that helps me understand my foreign DVDs better. With headphones connected to my smartphone it was much better than I’ve supposed. It is not really a simultaneously translation, but helps to understand most of the sentences.
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That’s smart. I use YouTube automatic subtitles if English dub or actual English subtitles aren’t available.
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I used to use Google Translate to translate Italian subtitles on dvds and burn copies with the “translated” subs. Those translations were in a league of their own 
I would love to have a disc player that could translate talk on the fly and display them as subtitles or a tv that had that feature. May already exist?!
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I do the same thing with movies on YouTube.
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I would really dig a translation device on a player or a tv like this !
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I also do this. Either rip subtitles from dvds or download whatever subtitle is avaliable, then use google translate. Then put the subtitle file on a usb-stick and put it in the usb-port on my blu-ray player, together with the original dvd.
It is not perfect of course, but it is no problem understanding what is being said.
Here is the french dvd of Night of the Serpent.
The only dvd with Italian audio.
Using it together with my English google translate subtitles.
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Google translate is quite good nowadays. I had always good laugh with the dada-nonsense-translations some years ago but now there’s not so much errors.
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Very smart idea ! Wich player you are using ?
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Didn’t know you could get a blu-ray player to mix and match like that. Nice.
The reason I would be looking for a solution where the player or tv dld all the work is that I simply don’t want to bother anymore with that stuff I just want to put on the disc and watch the movie. Don’t have any patience or time for tinkering. Getting too old probably.
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I have an Oppo BDP-105.
I guess all players are different, and it wont work on all players…?
To make it work on the Oppo I need to:
- Create a folder named sub on the usb-stick. Put the subtitle file in that folder, and rename the file to sub.srt
- There need to be at least one subtitle on the original disc. If there is no subtitle at all on the disc I can not chose my own file either, sadly.
I had the player for many years until I read on some forum that you could do this. I don’t think it is mentioned in the manual.
It is a bit of work, yes, but so far it is worth it.
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Thank you for your explanation ! Never got the idea to create subs this way.