Using your library

[AlbertoGinel]

Hi, I'm Alberto, I know a little bit of coding but it takes me a lot of time to code something, I had an idea to improve my learning English method using subtitles.

I use to watch series and films in English to learn. In my actual point for me is very easy to watch a movie with English subtitles but hard to watch it without subtitles. I got and idea to make an intermediate point between those two methods.

We can make a simple software to spoil the .srt (subtitles file), the software change random words to a lines rows.

For example:

1 00:02:12,087 --> 00:02:13,964 - Jump! - What are you doing?

2 00:02:24,727 --> 00:02:26,718 - Oh, my God! - What are you doing?

3 00:02:28,527 --> 00:02:29,721 Help me!

Can turn to:

1 00:02:12,087 --> 00:02:13,964 - Jump! - What ___ you doing?

2 00:02:24,727 --> 00:02:26,718 - Oh, __ God! - What ___ you _____?

3 00:02:28,527 --> 00:02:29,721 ____ me!

We can set in the code a rate like (0.55) the code is going to point every word in the text avoiding the numbers and the arrow "-->", after pointing a word the code is going to cast a random function to change the word for a lines row like: "What" for "____".

What do you think? It seems easy with your library.

Thanks

[cdown]

Hey there! Sorry for the delay.

This can be done with srt process. Here's one way to do it (not randomly, but you get the idea):

% cat /tmp/th.srt 
1
00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:39,980
Predators give us a dramatic health check on our planet's wild places.

2
00:00:41,580 --> 00:00:43,540
They are the top of the food chain

3
00:00:43,540 --> 00:00:47,300
and need an abundance of prey and vast territories for hunting.

% srt process -i /tmp/th.srt -f 'lambda content: " ".join(str(x) if i % 3 else "_" * len(x) for i, x in enumerate(content.split()))'
1
00:00:35,300 --> 00:00:39,980
_________ give us _ dramatic health _____ on our ________ wild places.

2
00:00:41,580 --> 00:00:43,540
____ are the ___ of the ____ chain

3
00:00:43,540 --> 00:00:47,300
___ need an _________ of prey ___ vast territories ___ hunting.

[cdown]

Closing, as I believe this is answered.