{"id":1751,"date":"2017-10-26T13:02:09","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/?p=1751"},"modified":"2017-10-26T13:02:09","modified_gmt":"2017-10-26T13:02:09","slug":"easy-spoken-corpora-with-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2017\/10\/26\/easy-spoken-corpora-with-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Easy spoken corpora with YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s exactly a secret that I rather like corpora. In this post I shall show you how you can create an easy spoken corpus using YouTube and a subtitle downloader. Use at your own risk, and YouTube might disable this usability at any time.<\/p>\n<h2>Find your videos.<\/h2>\n<p>Search YouTube. You know how to do this.<\/p>\n<h2>Download subtitles.<\/h2>\n<p>I used <a href=\"http:\/\/downsub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">DownSub.com<\/a>. It opens a pop-up ad the first time you get paste the video address in the search box but is otherwise benign.<br \/>\nDownload your subtitles. Repeat for as many videos as required. Yes this is a pain in the bum but it&#8217;s the best I can do.<\/p>\n<h2>Edit text.<\/h2>\n<p>Open all your subtitle files in the text editor of your choice and replace nonsense\/ html codes with nothing. Save them as .txt files.<\/p>\n<h2>Wow, a corpus!<\/h2>\n<p>Or a small one, depending on how much time you have. Tag the corpus if you wish, using TagAnt by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurenceanthony.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Laurence Anthony<\/a>.\u00a0 You can open the corpus in AntWord by him, too. Free downloads.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t think it&#8217;s exactly a secret that I rather like corpora. In this post I shall show you how you can create an easy spoken corpus using YouTube and a subtitle downloader. Use at your own risk, and YouTube might disable this usability at any time. Find your videos. Search YouTube. You know how [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[69,306],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-sf","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}