Using Readlang+ASB Player as a Makeshift Language Reactor

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Hey y’all,

I saw a comment from someone on one of these threads saying they had figured out how to use ASB Player and Readlang together to create a sort of makeshift Language Reactor which I thought sounded super cool. Unfortunately, they never followed up on that thread with an explanation of how they set this up. Thankfully, I found out that its actually incredibly easy, and will be amazing going forward as I always wished there was some app that was a mashup of Language Reactor and Readlang. The setup here is as follows:

  1. Download ASB Player from the Chrome extension store
  2. Open whatever piece of content you want to watch (YouTube, Netflix, etc.) and then in ASB Player’s Side Panel press “Load Subtitles”
  3. Open the Readlang chrome extension

If everything worked correctly, you should be able to translate the subtitles that appear on screen just as you would any text that you import or read in your browser with the Readlang extension.

Hope yall find this as useful as I’m finding it!

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[Youtube] Copy video URL at current time breaks Readlang + ABSPlayer
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Why not just import the YouTube video into Language Reactor?

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Instead of the side panel, you can just press ctrl+shift+F to get the subs directly over the video and use readlang on that. I was the one who made that post btw, and then I completely forgot about it. sorry.

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Readlang now works on pages with dynamic content and you can now translate words and phrases within YouTube captions that it overlays over the video. You will probably want to pause the video when you do this otherwise the captions tend to change too quickly.

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