As an Ingress agent, you may have online session with agents overseas on Zoom. In this entry, I will show you how to add subtile / translation (even into your own language!!) with some tools.
There is a useful tool, which you can open in your browser (only Chrome and Edge are supported).
When you speak like this, you can add subtitles to the video image.
To display it in Zoom from your browser, you need another tool called OBS Studio, desctipted later.
That alone is amazing, but you can also translate from the menu at the bottom! Lots of languages I don't even know!
(音声認識: Voice Recognition(language)、翻訳: Translation)
It also translates into Chinese (traditional).
You can also translate into Japanese.
It even translates into German!
Installing OBS Studio
As mentioned above, I would like to show the screen of a web browser to Zoom or other devices. You can do this not only with Zoom, but also with other video conferencing tools such as WebEx.
According to Wikipedia, OBS Studio is
OBS Studio is a free and open-source software suite for recording and live streaming. Written in C, C++ and Qt, OBS provides real-time source and device capture, scene composition, encoding, recording, and broadcasting.
I don't know much about it, but it seems to be commonly used for game streaming. Anyway, let's install this tool. You can find the installation instructions for Windows or Mac.
Setting up OBS Studio
I'm a beginner in using this software, so if I'm wrong, please let me know on Twitter or something.
Also, the capture is for Windows, but you can probably do the same for other operating systems.
I'm a beginner in using this software, so if I'm wrong, please let me know on Twitter or something.
Also, the capture is for Windows, but you can probably do the same for other operating systems.
Start OBS Studio and add a video source in the "Source" mini-window, which is the second window from the left at the bottom. Click the "+" button and select Window Capture.
(ウィンドウキャプチャ: Window Capture)
Select the Chrome window you want to capture (the one with the camera image and subtitles as shown before). The name of the window should be something like "Speech to Text Webcam Overlay - Google Chrome".
(ウィンドウ: Window)
Click "Start Virtual Camera" in the "Controls" mini-window at the bottom right. If you see a preview screen like this, you have succeeded.
If the Chrome window is not in the foreground at this time, the preview will be black and the Chrome window will not be displayed. To solve this, make the Chrome window full-screen; press F11 to make it full-screen, or Alt+Tab to switch to another window.
Selecting the OBS virtual camera in Zoom
Finally, in a Zoom meeting, "Start Video" and select "OBS Virtual Camera" and you will see something like this You can display subtitles or their translated versions in online meetings or drinking sessions. Handy!
Now you can subtitle or even translate your words and display them on online meeting tools like Zoom. If you have a slurred speech, it may misrecognize your words, but I think it's quite playful.
How to apply this to display the other person's words in your own subtitles.
Now, I will explain how to subtitle + translate the other person's microphone conversation.
If you have a good command of this, you can read a foreigner's conversation with subtitles of your own laungage. To do this, install a software called VB-Cable. (Install step omitted.)
After that, open the "Sound Settings".
(You can also select "Sound" under "System" from the Control Panel)
Now switch the output device to "Cable Input (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)" and
Switch the input device to "Cable Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)".
If you have a good command of this, you can read a foreigner's conversation with subtitles of your own laungage. To do this, install a software called VB-Cable. (Install step omitted.)
After that, open the "Sound Settings".
(You can also select "Sound" under "System" from the Control Panel)
Now switch the output device to "Cable Input (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)" and
Switch the input device to "Cable Output (VB-Audio Virtual Cable)".
(出力: Output、入力: Input)
Start a videoconferencing system such as Zoom. The microphone settings should look like this.
Start a videoconferencing system such as Zoom. The microphone settings should look like this.
If this is the case, your voice will not be heard by the other party, so change the microphone setting of Zoom as follows.
(マイク: Microphone、スピーカー: Speaker)
If you have a conversation with this setting, the other person's conversation will be subtitled and you will be able to hear your own conversation.
Let's try this Japanese conversation
This is how it translates a Japanese conversation into German and other languages. (You can also translate a foreign language into Japanese as well.)
You can also use this to add subtitles to movies and anime.
For example, here's a transcription of Niantic's Fumi's presentation on kinetic capsules in Suga ni Gutpunchu.
If you have a conversation with this setting, the other person's conversation will be subtitled and you will be able to hear your own conversation.
Let's try this Japanese conversation
This is how it translates a Japanese conversation into German and other languages. (You can also translate a foreign language into Japanese as well.)
You can also use this to add subtitles to movies and anime.
For example, here's a transcription of Niantic's Fumi's presentation on kinetic capsules in Suga ni Gutpunchu.
I used Zoom here, but I'm sure you can do it with other video conferencing software (Confirmed with WebEx).
When you have to Zoom in a language you don't know, you can translate the other person's conversation into your own language and display the subtitles. I hope you will give it a try.
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Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
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