subject: Use of software for subtitle translation [print this page] A subtitle is a term which is generally used for the wordings or the sentence that use to appear on the bottom of the playing movie. The subtitles are very useful for the person who does not use to understand the language of the playing movie. By reading the subtitles, one can easily understand the meaning of the movie and thus can enjoy it. People sometimes use to confuse between subtitles and caption. There is a very small difference between subtitles and caption. Captions are similar to subtitles, but they are in the original languages. Subtitles are simply translated from the original languages and use to appear on the bottom part of the playing movie. Thus one can easily watch a German or Chinese movie by reading the subtitles in English. Captions and subtitles go hand to hand and thus they should be done to keep the meaning of the movie intact. There are two processes that go hand to hand and they are transcription and translation. The standard of work should be maintained.
There are various types of software's which use to perform subtitle translation. There are a number of software's which use to provide subtitles for the movie which are not having subtitles. There is also software which can really play two types of subtitle in two different languages. Some kind of software's also can extract the text from the subtitle file. There exist subtitle translation wizard in the software which can perform sub translation in two clicks. By using these types of software one can easily watch the subtitles for those movies which are not having subtitles and one can easily play any kind of subtitle. By using the software, one can easily save the newly translated subtitle. One can also mix the original and the translated subtitle and can also save them.
There are other usages of the subtitle translation software's. If a person wants to learn language from the subtitle, then one can add the translated and the original sentences in to the dictionary and can easily learn. After that one can easily view the dictionary to learn languages. Thus there are many uses of the subtitle translation software. Using this only software, one can carry out many types of operations. There is various kind of software translation tool, but there are certain kinds of tool that best suits some kind of format.