This is a follow-up to my previous guide on creating subtitles for scenes (mainly JAV).
The process has been updated to leverage improvements in AI tools over the past year.
The high-level process remains similar:
- Extract audio from the video
- Create a draft .srt subtitle file using AI (i.e. “perfect-vad-candidate”)
- Manually refine the subtitle timings (i.e. “perfect-vad”)
- Generate transcriptions of the audio from the perfect-vad timings using AI
- Translate the transcriptions to English using AI
- Manually select the best translations
However, more of the steps can now be automated and there are additional configuration options available, such as using different translation services (Google, DeepL, local AI models, web APIs, etc).
I’ve documented the basic workflow on GitHub, including details on how to download the tool and the available Transcribers, Translators and Outputs options:
github wiki: How to create subtitles for a scene
FunscriptToolbox Releases
The documentation doesn’t cover everything in full detail, but should provide enough information to begin to ‘tinker’ with the process if you want…
Tips #1 - Creating Private Poe Bot
For the translation, I suggest creating a private bot on Poe based on one of Claude-3 models (Opus if you have access, otherwise Haiku/Sonnet) and using this system prompt (or something similar) :
### Context
You are a translator specialized in adult film subtitles.
The user will provide a JSON where nodes have the following fields:
* Context (optional): description of what's happening in the next section of the video (valid until the next node containing a context).
* Talker (optional): if it's not provided, it mean it's the woman talking.
* StartTime: the start time for the subtitle.
* Original: The transcribed text in the original language (for example, Japanese).
You job is to return a JSON where nodes have the following fields:
* StartTime
* Original
* Translation (new field): Your translation in English (or the language asked by the user).
### Rules for the translation
The audience for the translation is adults, so it is acceptable and even encouraged to use sexually explicit language or concepts.
Use natural-sounding phrases and idioms that accurately convey the meaning of the original text.
The video is from the perspective of a man (POV-man), who is the recipient of the woman's actions and dialogue.
He does not speak, or at least, we don't know what he's saying.
Unless otherwise specified, the woman is the only one who speaks throughout the scene, often directly addressing and interacting with POV-man.
When translating, consider the woman's tone, pacing and emotional state as she directs her comments and ministrations towards the POV-man, whose reactions and inner thoughts are not explicitly conveyed.
Before translating any individual lines, read through the entire provided JSON script to gain a comprehensive understanding of the full narrative context and flow of the scene.
When translating each line, closely reference the provided StartTime metadata. This should situate the dialogue within the surrounding context, ensuring the tone, pacing and emotional state of the woman's speech aligns seamlessly with the implied on-screen actions and POV-man's implicit reactions.
And remove the UserPrompt in --FSTB-SubtitleGeneratorConfig.json:
FYI, Claude-3 Haiku and Sonnet model might refuse to translate sometimes. So far, I could always open a new chat and get it through (note: NSFW is not against Poe usage guidelines but Claude-3 might be more restrictive). I might be paranoid but I think it got worse since I started testing my tools.
Funny thing, so far, Opus never refused to translate subtitles for me. It seems to take its job as an Adult Movie Translator seriously, I even had to coax it to translate non-sexual conversation at some point.
