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15th Panhellenic Symposium Upcoming - February 15, 2025

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    • February 13, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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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:

    Επίκουρος - Επικούρεια Φιλοσοφία

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    These appear to be scheduled livestream links for the conference:

    Saturday:

    Sunday:

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

    Κήπος Αθηνών
    Η Επικούρεια Φιλοσοφία σήμερα, από τον ΚΗΠΟ ΑΘΗΝΩΝ. Friends of Epicurean Philosophy GARDEN OF ATHENS - www.epicuros.gr
    www.youtube.com

    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.

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    • February 13, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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    Great -- thank you for looking up those links!

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    • February 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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    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?

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    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.

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    • February 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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    Wow thanks for that info. We're moving closer and closer to effective real-time translation.

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    • February 15, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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    Unfortunately the current live version has very difficult audio -- lots of echo. Hopefully the post-live upload will use a more direct audio source.

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    • February 15, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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    Yes indeed. Good to be able to tune in and see the crowd. That's Christos Yapijakis with the blue shirt seated behind the bust of Epicurus.

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    • February 15, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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    Intermission (with a brief Bouzouki appearance). It is going well, and the echo issue has been mostly resolved.

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    • February 15, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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    That is Μαρίνα Δακανάλη (Marina Dakanali) singing.

    Yannis Avramidis was a lot of fun.

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

    Edited 3 times, last by Bryan (February 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM).

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    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.

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    • February 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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    Also looks like they have captions enabled on the video, so we can set them to translate directly rather than using Google Translate separately.

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    • February 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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    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.

    Patrikios

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    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.

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    Sunday stream link

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    • February 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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    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).

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    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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    • February 18, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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    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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    Edited once, last by Bryan (February 18, 2025 at 11:56 PM).

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