A simple Linux shell script for translating an .srt file into another language and merging both languages into an .ass file

transmerge.sh

#!/bin/sh

#
#  This program takes an .srt file, translates it, and merges both translations into a .ass file with the user's selected
#  language on top of the screen and the other language at the bottom.
#
#  Usage: ./transmerge.sh [source language] [target language] [language on top (en|fri|...)] [source .srt] [target .ass (optional)]
#
#      ex., $ ./transmerge.sh en fr en movie.srt
#
#      New file: movie.ass
#
#  Above translates English to merged English+French with English displaying at the top of the screen and French the bottom.
#

source_lang=$1
target_lang=$2
top=$3
source_file=$4
file_saved=$5
sleep_s=12
lines=0
count=0

[ "$top" == "$source_lang" ] && bot=$target_lang || bot=$source_lang 
[ "$file_saved" == "" ] && file_saved=$(echo $source_file | sed "s/\.srt$/\.ass/g")
file_saved=$file_saved"."$(date +"%m%d%H%M%S")
formatted_file=$file_saved".1"

filetype=$(file -i $source_file | awk -F'=' '{print $2'})
[ "$filetype" == "utf-8" ] && iconv -f $filetype $source_file -o $formatted_file || perl -CS -pwe '' $source_file > $formatted_file
perl -i -CS -ane 's/<i>//g; s/<\/i>//g; s/- //g; s/\*//g; s/\r//g; $n=(@F==0) ? $n+1 : 0; print if $n<=1' $formatted_file

substart="[Script Info]\n\
ScriptType: v4.00+\\n\
Collisions: Normal\\n\
PlayDepth: 0\nTimer: 100,0000\n\
Video Aspect Ratio: 0\n\
WrapStyle: 0\n\
ScaledBorderAndShadow: no\n\
\n\
[V4+ Styles]\n\
Format: Name,Fontname,Fontsize,PrimaryColour,SecondaryColour,OutlineColour,BackColour,Bold,Italic,Underline,StrikeOut,ScaleX,ScaleY,Spacing,Angle,BorderStyle,Outline,Shadow,Alignment,MarginL,MarginR,MarginV,Encoding\n\
Style: "$top",Arial,10,&H00F9FFFF,&H00FFFFFF,&H00000000,&H00000000,-1,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,1,0,8,10,10,10,0\n\
Style: "$bot",Arial,18,&H00F9FFF9,&H00FFFFFF,&H00000000,&H00000000,-1,0,0,0,100,100,0,0,1,2,0,2,10,10,10,0\n\
\n\
[Events]\n\
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text"
echo -e $substart > $file_saved

for task in "Formatting" "Translating"; do

   echo -e "\n\n"$task" "$(echo $source_file | rev | cut -f 2- -d '.' | rev)".srt ...\n\n\n"$substart

   while read -r lineNum; read -r lineTime; read -r lineText; do

      ## Only loop if no empty text is found
      while [[ $lineText =~ [^[:space:]] ]]; do ## [ "$lineText" != "" ]
         text=$text$lineText" "
         read -r lineText
      done

      if [ "$task" == "Translating" ]; then
         translation=$(wget -U "Mozilla/5.0" -q -O- "http://translate.googleapis.com/translate_a/single?client=gtx&sl=$source_lang&tl=$target_lang&dt=t&q=$text" | perl -lne 'push @a,/(?<!\,\[\[)\[\"(.*?)(?<!\\)\"/g;END{print "@a"}' | perl -CS -pwe 's/\N{U+005C}\N{U+0022}/\N{U+0022}/g;')
         #translation=$(trans -s $source_lang -t $target_lang -b "$text")
      else
         translation=$text
      fi

      ## Add\Remove a space for question marks, exclamation marks, colons... depending on language
      if [ "$source_lang" == "fr" ]; then
         text=$(echo $text | perl -CS -pwe 's/((?!=\w)\s(?=[!|?|;|:]))//g; s/((?<=[\w|\s])[!|?|;|:])/ $&/g; s/\N{U+00AB}(?=\S)/$& /g; s/(?=\S)\N{U+00BB}/ $&/g; ')
      else
         text=$(echo $text | sed 's/ !/!/g; s/ ?/?/g; s/ :/:/g; s/ ;/\;/g;')
      fi

      ## “ = U+201C, ” = U+201D, ' = U+0027 , " = U+0022, « = U+00AB, » = U+00BB
      if [ "$target_lang" == "fr" ]; then
         translation=$(echo $translation | perl -CS -pwe 's/((?!=\w)\s(?=[!|?|;|:]))//g; s/((?<=[\w|\s])[!|?|;|:])/ $&/g; s/\N{U+00AB}(?=\S)/$& /g; s/(?=\S)\N{U+00BB}/ $&/g;')
      else
         translation=$(echo $translation | sed 's/ !/!/g; s/ ?/?/g; s/ :/:/g; s/ ;/\;/g;')
      fi

      ## Grab and incorperate timeline info. This shell command is faster than awk, sed, and cut
      timeStamp="Dialogue: 0,"${lineTime:1:7}"."${lineTime:9:2}","${lineTime:18:7}"."${lineTime:26:2}","
      first=$timeStamp$top",,0000,0000,0000,,"$([ "$top" == "$source_lang" ] && echo $text || echo $translation)
      second=$timeStamp$bot",,0000,0000,0000,,"$([ "$top" != "$source_lang" ] && echo $text || echo $translation)

      if [ "$task" == "Translating" ]; then
         count=$((count + 1))  
         printf "%s\n%s\n" "$first" "$second" |tee -a $file_saved

         ## Don't sleep after last translation as it's not necessary
         if [[ $lines -ne $count ]]; then
             percentage=$(( ($count*100)/$lines ))
             echo -n $'\e[s' ## Save cursor position

             for (( i=$sleep_s; i>0; i-- )); do
                timeleft=$(date -d@$(( ($lines-$count-1)*$sleep_s+$i )) -u +%H:%M:%S)
                echo -e -n "\e[7m\e[1mFile: "$source_file"   Logical line: "$count" / "$lines" ("$percentage"%)   Real line: "$lineNum" / "$realLines"   Time left: "$timeleft"   Next translation: "$i"s... "$'\e[u'
                sleep 1
             done

             ## Print spaces to delete info line then reset cursor to previous position
             printf "%-135s %s" "Translating..." $'\e[u'
         fi
      else
         lines=$((lines + 1))
         printf "%s\n%s\n" "$first" "$second"
         realLines=$lineNum
      fi

      text=""
   done < $formatted_file
done

new_file_saved=$(echo $file_saved | rev | cut -f 2- -d '.' | rev)
mv $file_saved $new_file_saved
rm $formatted_file

echo -e "\n\nDone!\n\n"
echo "cat "$(pwd)"/"$new_file_saved
echo "vi "$(pwd)"/"$source_file

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