15th Panhellenic Symposium Upcoming - February 15, 2025

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    Christos Yapijakis has forwarded to me the agenda for this weekends Panhellenic Epicurean Symposium. There look to be many very good presentations.

    Unfortunately for most of us here, the Symposium is largely in Greek, but in years past it has generally been Live-Streamed to Youtube, and I suspect that will be the case again this year. I don't have an exact link to offer, but I bet you'll be able to find one at one of the following pages of the Gardens of Athens leadership:

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    15th_Panhellenic_Symposium_of_Epicurean_Philosophy_2025.pdf

    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 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?

    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.

    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.

    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.

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