15th Panhellenic Symposium Upcoming - February 15, 2025

These appear to be scheduled livestream links for the conference:

Saturday:

Sunday:

Here are some of the earlier editions, chopped into playlists:

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Unfortunately there seems to be a complete lack of subtitles. Looking at previous editions, the sound quality is good enough that Google Translate in transcribe mode is able to do a pretty good job.

Quote from Cassius

Quote from AxA

Looking at previous editions, the sound quality is good enough that Google Translate in transcribe mode is able to do a pretty good job.

Which presumably means we won't get much out of watching "Live" but that shortly after it's published to youtube they will do a speech to text, and maybe have an English version of that?

Lately on Youtube I have noticed that some videos that I am sure were done in only english now have a foreign language audio option- 0r at least an auto-generated text translation.

Is anyone following the technology here closely enough to clarify?

From what I can see from their youtube channel, even all their previous symposia are still without subtitles.

What I mean is, you can play the youtube video on one device (such as computer), while on another device (such as phone or tablet) run Google Translate set to "transcribe mode" to process continuous audio. Google Translate will hear the Greek being said live on the youtube video and output English translation captions.

Looks like you can even do it on the same device, using Google Translate web version. You select Greek as the input language and click the microphone to start listening. Then in another window you play the video. The web version appears to limit you to 5000 characters at a time, at which point you would have to refresh the page. Whereas in the phone or tablet app version of Google Translate, you can enter "transcribe mode" which should allow continuous transcription.

Unfortunately the current live version has very difficult audio -- lots of echo. Hopefully the post-live upload will use a more direct audio source.

Intermission (with a brief Bouzouki appearance). It is going well, and the echo issue has been mostly resolved.

That is Μαρίνα Δακανάλη (Marina Dakanali) singing.

Yannis Avramidis was a lot of fun.

At the end, everyone was invited to a local restaurant.

Looks like they ran the Saturday event under the Sunday livestream. We'll see whether they then use the Saturday stream for tomorrow, or else use a new video link.

Also looks like they have captions enabled on the video, so we can set them to translate directly rather than using Google Translate separately.

Quote from AxA

set them to translate directly

thanks for the suggestion. If there is any explanation to get YouTube to translate directly, let us know.

Using the 2-device methos with Google Translate helped to get a sense of the presentations today.

Quote from Patrikios

Quote from AxA

set them to translate directly

thanks for the suggestion. If there is any explanation to get YouTube to translate directly, let us know.

Using the 2-device methos with Google Translate helped to get a sense of the presentations today.

In the Youtube video player, first click the "CC" icon to enable captions. Then click the gear icon (settings), choose "Subtitles/CC", choose "Auto-translate", and then choose your target language.

Sunday stream link

Quote from AxA

In the Youtube video player, first click the "CC" icon to enable captions.

My YouTube player shows "Subtitles/closed captions unavailable".

Hopefully, the subtitles will show up in the completed videos (after the symposium).

Quote from Patrikios

Quote from AxA

In the Youtube video player, first click the "CC" icon to enable captions.

My YouTube player shows "Subtitles/closed captions unavailable".

Hopefully, the subtitles will show up in the completed videos (after the symposium).

Yes, it looks like in this case the subtitles became available as soon as the livestream was complete (same link).

So for any of these videos, the procedure would be:

(1) If you are able to activate Youtube subtitles: first click the "CC" icon to enable captions. Then click the gear icon (settings), choose "Subtitles/CC", choose "Auto-translate", and then choose your target language.

(2) If you are unable to activate Youtube subtitles: open Google Translate alongside the video (in another window or on another device). Select Greek as the input language and click the microphone to start listening. Then play the video.

I only caught a few minutes of the symposium but it was fun to see such an event put on.

Cassius, you got a shoutout at 38:32:

15ο Πανελλήνιο Συμπόσιο Επικούρειας Φιλοσοφίας Ημέρα 1η

Σάββατο 15 Φεβρουαρίου 2025www.epicuros.gr

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