Keywords: Caption, Translator, English Chinese, Subtitles
Caption Translator is a free application which allows real-time translation of Chinese subtitled movies into English. Using Open-Source Optical Character Recognition software (tesseract) and the Microsoft translation service, it captures a selected region of the screen, transcodes the scanned text into the Chinese alphabet, translates the Chinese text into English and displays the results.
Features: + Real-time translation of subtitled Chinese video + Ad-hoc translation of Chinese text + Extensions available for other languages
Caption Translator License Caption translator is a free application. The application and source code can be provided on request.
A demo video is available here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=deUDCK2MXoU