Subtitle translation services?

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I'm looking for a service to create subtitles for a movie I bought. https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/759289-shimai-sokan-itazura-na-machichi
*edit* No longer looking to pay. You can see a followup message below where I posted instructions for how to do what I was asking for. And others have pointed out you can also use whisperAI these days as well.

Willing to pay. Would be happy with an automated solution that gives google translate like results.
Features I am looking for:
Easy to use. I don't have time to setup a complex system on my own anymore. I have other hobbies that are more important to me.
Pay per use, no subscriptions.
Transcribe Japanese audio.
Output SRT format.
Translate from Japanese to English.

I found this link : https://www.akiba-online.com/thread...ed-subtitles-of-movies-japanese-easy.1683427/
It has a system you can install and setup yourself, but I'd rather spend money than time on this problem.
It did refer me to this service seems to be exactly what I am looking for: https://speechlogger.appspot.com/
It's pay per use (a lot of sites like veed.io charge a yearly fee.
But I can't get their "Export to Captions (.srt)" option to work. It does nothing. I've tried multiple browsers and both Mac and Windows Operating Systems.

I found a few old threads about subtitling. This one is super old all the EroJapanese links are dead. I am wary of cold messaging someone based on a thread for 14 years ago: https://www.akiba-online.com/thread...subtitle-talk-not-a-sub-request-thread.12173/

The video I want translated is an hour long and I'd be willing to pay 60$ or so to have it transcribed (well) into japanese, extra for translation. Or 30$ to have it poorly auto transcribed AND auto-translated into english.

I found a ton of services. But it's hard to find reviews. Here are some of the services I found (no clue if they are legitimate or not):
 
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ok. I got this one to work:
It's rather easy, IF you use google's paid API for translation. But Google's api has a free 300$ trial credit when you sign up.
Because I have python 3 on my system (and autosub claims it doesn't work with 3) I followed these steps to ensure python 2 is used: https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/215489338-Installing-and-using-virtualenv-with-Python-2
Then I just did pip install autosub
then : autosub -S ja -D en -F srt -K KEYFROMGOOGLEAPI Tia2.mka

Steps for creating the google key: https://neliosoftware.com/blog/how-to-generate-an-api-key-for-google-translate/

If you want the original transcribed japanese, you have to run the command like so:
then : autosub -S ja -D ja -F srt -K KEYFROMGOOGLEAPI Tia2.mka

Now I just need to figure out who I can pay to clean these up. Or if I should just watch the movie with these subtitles.
 
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not sure those auto generated jap to english work very well, translator is better
 
not sure those auto generated jap to english work very well, translator is better
Are you taking the job? Because I asked, and offered money and offered a writeup - for free - on how to get poorly transcribed and translated subs.
 
I can translate with Alibaba Cloud API Cloud. If necessary, I will try to translate one for you first, and you can tell me the video number
I'm looking for a service to create subtitles for a movie I bought. https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/759289-shimai-sokan-itazura-na-machichi
Willing to pay. Would be happy with an automated solution that gives google translate like results.
Features I am looking for:
Easy to use. I don't have time to setup a complex system on my own anymore. I have other hobbies that are more important to me.
Pay per use, no subscriptions.
Transcribe Japanese audio.
Output SRT format.
Translate from Japanese to English.

I found this link : https://www.akiba-online.com/thread...ed-subtitles-of-movies-japanese-easy.1683427/
It has a system you can install and setup yourself, but I'd rather spend money than time on this problem.
It did refer me to this service seems to be exactly what I am looking for: https://speechlogger.appspot.com/
It's pay per use (a lot of sites like veed.io charge a yearly fee.
But I can't get their "Export to Captions (.srt)" option to work. It does nothing. I've tried multiple browsers and both Mac and Windows Operating Systems.

I found a few old threads about subtitling. This one is super old all the EroJapanese links are dead. I am wary of cold messaging someone based on a thread for 14 years ago: https://www.akiba-online.com/thread...subtitle-talk-not-a-sub-request-thread.12173/

The video I want translated is an hour long and I'd be willing to pay 60$ or so to have it transcribed (well) into japanese, extra for translation. Or 30$ to have it poorly auto transcribed AND auto-translated into english.

I found a ton of services. But it's hard to find reviews. Here are some of the services I found (no clue if they are legitimate or not):
I can translate with Alibaba Cloud API Cloud. If necessary, I will try to translate one for you first, and you can tell me the video number
 
i'm in the middle of translating my entire collection using AI, specifically whisper-ctranslate2, large-v2 model.

using this youtube video as example, you can compare the results with youtube subs.

you can pm me your video, just trying to help. not asking anything in return.

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I have also switched to whisper-ctranslate2. I guess people skip my follow up message where I mention I got it working using Google APIs back in the day. I will edit my original post to note that I am no longer offering money for a service that I posted how everyone can do for essentially free. And now OpenAI makes it even cheaper.

Thank you @krack and @xch8888, no thanks @mcjizz lol.