laborde-visio1

This repository tracks the transcription and translation for the video conference by Stéphane Laborde Pourquoi la monnaie libre n'est justement pas un Ponzi. This translates to Why Free Currency Isn't Just a Ponzi (Scheme).

The original video and the autogenerated captions in French can be sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRq2197FlMw.

Setup

The following command downloads auto-generated captions from YouTube to a new file named original-subs.fr.vtt.

yt-dlp --write-auto-subs --sub-lang=fr --skip-download  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRq2197FlMw -o original-subs

Other video players such as mpv might not display YouTube's auto-generated captions properly. The following removes duplicate and resyncs captions.

python parse-subs.py original-subs.fr.vtt 

Other Notes

The Makefile contains some reference for using yt-dlp and ffmpeg but does not function without downloading the entire video and renaming some files.

Context

Stéphane Laborde is the author of The Relative Theory of Money, an economic theory inspired by the free software movement which defines "monnaie libre" as the category of currencies that respects the economic agency and time of its users.