gemini-srt-translator

🌟 Gemini SRT Translator

Translate SRT subtitle files using the power of Google Gemini AI! 🚀

✨ Overview

Gemini SRT Translator is a powerful python tool to translate subtitle files using the power of Google Gemini AI. Perfect for anyone needing fast, accurate, and customizable translations for videos, movies, and series.

• 🔤 SRT Translation: Translate .srt subtitle files to a wide range of languages supported by Google Gemini AI.
• ⏱️ Timing & Format: Ensures that the translated subtitles maintain the exact timestamps and basic SRT formatting of the original file.
• 💾 Quick Resume: Easily resume interrupted translations from where you left off.
• 🧠 Advanced AI: Leverages thinking and reasoning capabilities for more contextually accurate translations (available on Gemini 2.5 models).
• 🖥️ CLI Support: Full command-line interface for easy automation and scripting.
• ⚙️ Customizable: Tune model parameters, adjust batch size, and access other advanced settings.
• 🎞️ SRT Extraction: Extract and translate SRT subtitles from video files automatically (requires FFmpeg).
• 🎵 Audio Context: Extract audio from a video file or provide your own to improve translation accuracy (requires FFmpeg).
• 📜 Description Support: Add a description to your translation job to guide the AI in using specific terminology or context.
• 📋 List Models: Easily list all currently available Gemini models to choose the best fit for your needs.
• 🔄 Auto-Update: Keep the tool updated with automatic version checking and update prompts.
• 📝 Logging: Optional saving of progress and 'thinking' process logs for review.

📦 Installation

Basic:

pip install --upgrade gemini-srt-translator

Recommended: Use a Virtual Environment

It's best practice to use a virtual environment. This is especially recommended as gemini-srt-translator installs several dependencies that could potentially conflict with your existing packages:

# Create a virtual environment
python -m venv venv

# Activate the virtual environment
# On Windows:
venv\Scripts\activate
# On macOS/Linux:
source venv/bin/activate

# Install inside the virtual environment
pip install --upgrade gemini-srt-translator

🔑 How to Get Your API Key

• Go to Google AI Studio.
• Sign in with your Google account.
• Click on Generate API Key.
• Copy and keep your key safe.

🔐 Setting Your API Key

You can provide your API key in several ways:

• Environment Variable (Recommended): Set the GEMINI_API_KEY environment variable. This is the most secure and recommended method.

• macOS/Linux:

  export GEMINI_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
  export GEMINI_API_KEY2="your_second_api_key_here"
  

• Windows (Command Prompt):

  set GEMINI_API_KEY=your_api_key_here
  set GEMINI_API_KEY2=your_second_api_key_here
  

• Windows (PowerShell):

  $env:GEMINI_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
  $env:GEMINI_API_KEY2="your_second_api_key_here"  # Optional for additional quota
  

• Command Line Argument: Use the -k or --api-key flag

  gst translate -i subtitle.srt -l French -k YOUR_API_KEY
  

• Interactive Prompt: The tool will prompt you if no key is found

  gst translate -i subtitle.srt -l French
  

• Python API: Set the gemini_api_key variable in your script

  import gemini_srt_translator as gst
  gst.gemini_api_key = "your_api_key_here"
  

🚀 Quick Start

🖥️ Using the Command Line Interface (CLI)

Basic Translation

# Using environment variable (recommended)
export GEMINI_API_KEY="your_api_key_here"
gst translate -i subtitle.srt -l French

# Using command line argument
gst translate -i subtitle.srt -l French -k YOUR_API_KEY

# Set output file name
gst translate -i subtitle.srt -l French -o translated_subtitle.srt

# Extract subtitles from video and translate (requires FFmpeg)
gst translate -v movie.mp4 -l Spanish

# Extract and use audio from video for context (requires FFmpeg)
gst translate -v movie.mp4 -l Spanish --extract-audio

# Interactive model selection
gst translate -i subtitle.srt -l "Brazilian Portuguese" --interactive

# Resume translation from a specific line
gst translate -i subtitle.srt -l French --start-line 20

# Suppress output
gst translate -i subtitle.srt -l French --quiet

Advanced Options

# Full-featured translation with custom settings
gst translate \
  -i input.srt \
  -v video.mp4 \
  -l French \
  -k YOUR_API_KEY \
  -k2 YOUR_SECOND_API_KEY \
  -o output_french.srt \
  --model gemini-2.5-pro \
  --batch-size 150 \
  --temperature 0.7 \
  --description "Medical TV series, use medical terminology" \
  --progress-log \
  --thoughts-log \
  --extract-audio \

CLI Help

# Show all available commands and options
gst --help

# Show specific command help
gst translate --help

🐍 Using Python API

Translating an SRT file

import gemini_srt_translator as gst

gst.gemini_api_key = "your_api_key_here"
gst.target_language = "French"
gst.input_file = "subtitle.srt"

gst.translate()

Resuming an Interrupted Translation

Just run again with the same parameters, or specify the start line:

import gemini_srt_translator as gst

gst.gemini_api_key = "your_api_key_here"
gst.target_language = "French"
gst.input_file = "subtitle.srt"
gst.start_line = 20

gst.translate()

⚙️ Advanced Configuration

🔧 GST Parameters

• gemini_api_key2: Second key for more quota (useful for free Pro models).
• video_file: Path to a video file to extract subtitles and/or audio for context (requires FFmpeg).
• audio_file: Path to an audio file to use as context for translation (requires FFmpeg).
• extract_audio: Whether to extract and use audio context from the video file (default: False).
• output_file: Name of the translated file.
• start_line: Starting line for translation.
• description: Description of the translation job.
• batch_size: Batch size (default: 300).
• free_quota: Signal GST that you are using a free quota (default: True).
• skip_upgrade: Skip version upgrade check (default: False).
• use_colors: Activate colors in terminal (default: True).
• progress_log: Enable progress logging to a file (default: False).
• thoughts_log: Enable logging of the 'thinking' process to a file (default: False).
• quiet_mode: Suppress all output (default: False).
• resume: Skip prompt and set automatic resume mode.

🔬 Model Tuning Parameters

• model_name: Gemini model (default: "gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20").
• temperature: Controls randomness in output. Lower for more deterministic, higher for more creative (range: 0.0-2.0).
• top_p: Nucleus sampling parameter (range: 0.0-1.0).
• top_k: Top-k sampling parameter (range: >=0).
• streaming: Enable streamed responses (default: True).
  • Set to False for bad internet connections or when using slower models.
• thinking: Enable thinking capability for potentially more accurate translations (default: True).
  • Only available for Gemini 2.5 models.
• thinking_budget: Token budget for the thinking process (default: 2048, range: 0-24576, 0 also disables thinking).
  • Only available for Gemini 2.5 Flash (for now).

💡 Full example:

import gemini_srt_translator as gst

gst.gemini_api_key = "your_api_key_here"
gst.gemini_api_key2 = "your_api_key2_here"
gst.target_language = "French"
gst.input_file = "subtitle.srt"
gst.output_file = "subtitle_translated.srt"
gst.video_file = "video.mp4"
gst.audio_file = "audio.mp3"
gst.extract_audio = False
gst.start_line = 20
gst.description = "Medical TV series, use medical terms"
gst.model_name = "gemini-2.5-pro-preview-03-25"
gst.batch_size = 150
gst.streaming = True
gst.thinking = True
gst.thinking_budget = 4096
gst.temperature = 0.7
gst.top_p = 0.95
gst.top_k = 20
gst.free_quota = False
gst.skip_upgrade = True
gst.use_colors = False
gst.progress_log = True
gst.thoughts_log = True
gst.quiet_mode = False
gst.resume = True

gst.translate()

📚 Listing Available Models

CLI

gst list-models -k YOUR_API_KEY

Python API

import gemini_srt_translator as gst

gst.gemini_api_key = "your_api_key_here"
gst.listmodels()

🎨 Unofficial GUI Applications

If you prefer a user-friendly graphical interface over command-line usage, be sure to check out:

• 🔗 Gemini SRT Translator GUI (by @mkaflowski)
• 🔗 Gemini SRT Translator GUI (by @dane-9)

Perfect for users who want the same powerful translation capabilities with an intuitive visual interface!

📝 License

Distributed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

👥 Contributors

Thank you to all who have contributed to this project:

• MaKTaiL - Creator and maintainer
• CevreMuhendisi
• angelitto2005
• sjiampojamarn
• mkaflowski

Special thanks to all users who have reported issues, suggested features, and helped improve the project.