I found that TED talks are useful for learning English because TED.COM provides subtitles made by many contributors.
I made a simple python GUI application, TED Downloader, using tcl/tk that can easily download videos/audios with subtitles.
Click to view.
Current release is v2.4.1(2013-03-24). See the changelog
After extracting the zip file, you first need to run TEDDownloaderConfig.exe to configure settings.
An error message dialog box will pop up if executable files cannot be run. In the case, please install vcredist_x86.exe.
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Encodingis the encoding of the subtitle text.example>
- English ==>
asciiorutf-8 - Korean ==>
cp949orutf-8 - Japanese ==>
cp932orutf-8
- English ==>
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Class Nameis a language class for the SMI file (subtitle file). -
Languageis an additional language for the subtitle.
SMI format explanation in detail: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms971327.aspx
language.txt is a pre-defined file for the language code.
Each line consists of four different code types of a language
[1) Language name] [2) langID for TED.com] [3) iso639 name for SMI] [4) iso3166 name for SMI]
The second type is not used because TED.com currently uses 3rd type as a language code
style.txt is a style file for the customization of the subtitle (SMI) style.
Run TEDDownloaderGUI.exe. It will take more than 15 seconds to load the list of videos.
After that, select items by using ctrl(or shift) key + mouse click or mouse dragging, and click Download button.
You can see video/audio files with subtitle files in VIDEO folder.
You may clone this repository and run TEDDownloaderConfig.py or TEDDownloaderGUI.py directly, instead of using released executable files.
Executable files were generated by py2exe(py2exe-0.6.9.win32-py2.7)
TED Downloader is made available under the MIT license.
TED Downloader incorporates code from Beautiful Soup, which is also made available under the MIT license.