Short, Easy Dialogues

15 topics: 10 to 77 dialogues per topic, with audio

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Dec. 18, 2016. All 273 Dialogues below are error‐free. NOTE: The number following each title below (which is the same number that follows the corresponding dialogue) is the Flesch‐Kincaid Grade Level. See Flesch‐Kincaid or FREE Readability Formulas, or Readability‐Grader, or Readability‐Score. These grade levels are not "true" grade levels, because the dialogues are not in "true" paragraph form (because of the A: and B: format). However, the grade levels are true in the sense that they are truly relative to one another.


Kop58engsub Convert014051 Min Page

ffmpeg -i kop58 -c copy kop58.mkv Then proceed with subtitle conversion. | Problem | Likely cause | Solution | |---------|--------------|----------| | Subtitles missing after conversion | Soft subs not supported in output container (e.g., MP4) | Burn them in or use MKV | | Subtitles out of sync at 01:40:51 | Frame rate mismatch or original file had varying delays | Use ffmpeg -itsoffset or Subtitle Edit | | Conversion fails at exact timestamp | Corrupted frame around 01:40:51 | Re-encode with -ss after -i (slow but precise): -i input -ss 01:40:51 | | No audio after cut | -c copy can break audio if keyframes don’t exist | Re-encode audio: -c:a aac | 7. Advanced: Automate Conversion of Multiple “kop58” Style Files If you have many files named kop58_01 , kop58_02 , etc., with English subs, and you want to cut each from 01:40:51 to end:

First, extract subs:

ffmpeg -ss 01:40:51 -i kop58.mkv -vf "subtitles=kop58.mkv:si=0" -c:v libx264 -c:a aac cut_part.mp4 If the user wants to extract subtitles as a .srt file and shift them so that the subtitle at 01:40:51 becomes 00:00:00: kop58engsub convert014051 min

Use Subtitle Edit → Synchronization → Point synchronization: Set a sync point at 01:40:51 (video time) to match subtitle time. If the file is named only kop58 (no .mp4, .mkv, etc.), use ffmpeg -i kop58 to probe its real format. Then rename or convert. ffmpeg -i kop58 -c copy kop58

ffmpeg -i kop58.mkv -map 0:s:0 subs.srt Then, use Subtitle Edit or ffmpeg to shift all timestamps: If the file is named only kop58 (no



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