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 auto-generated captions in French can be sourced from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRq2197FlMw.

Contributing

The automatically generated French transcript needs to be checked over by a human. The French transcript then needs to be translated to English, also with human oversight.

File mangen-subs.fr.vtt contains the current draft of the human-edited auto-generated transcript.

Contributors

tuxmain, https://txmn.tk/

Getting the original auto-generated transcript

Run the following to download the auto-generated transcript from YouTube to a new file named autogen-subs.fr.vtt.

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

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

python scripts/parse-subs.py autogen-subs.fr.vtt

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.