Remove spaces between the words of subtitles

[fits79]

Hi.

I have some .srt subtitles that has spaces between the words more than enough.
Like this

4
00:00:58,168 --> 00:01:00,673
The ho use at ri sing of the s un is n ear

5
00:01:02,488 --> 00:01:06,209
Wh ere did y ou go?

6
00:01:06,347 --> 00:01:09,484
I h ope you are in y our time and do n't late

Is there any program or any method that can clear all that kind of spaces mostly at greek language(and not at english) that do all that automatically and NOT manual word by word?

A LOT OF THANKS.

[El Heggunte]

Any decent text editor (TextPad, EditPlus, NoteTab, whatever) can do batch-replacement/deletion of characters.
However I doubt that any of them is "good-enough" at spell-checking (especially when the language is not English), so I fear some corrections will still have to be done manually.

[mrcoolekin]

You can "somewhat" automate this if you notice a pattern. In your example I see "y our" is misspelled more than once. In that case you can use notepad's "find and replace" function to automate the replacement of the correct spelling. You what to find "y o" and replace it with "yo". You will have to account for any misspelled words after though, haha.

[fits79]

I know how i can do it MANUALLY but this is not that i want.

I want to know if i can do that AUTOMATICALLY NOT MANUALLY....

[mrcoolekin]

LOL, not fully automated. Machines aren't human beings.

[jman98]

I know how i can do it MANUALLY but this is not that i want.

I want to know if i can do that AUTOMATICALLY NOT MANUALLY....

No. This task is much harder than you realize. This is not the best example, but it's all I can think of. Such a program would have to be smart enough to understand if you really meant to say
car pet
or if you meant to say
carpet
You're getting into artificial intelligence issues here. This is a very difficult job.

[Cornucopia]

Yeah, that would require the machine to be able to guess what you were intending...

You can always open the file up in MS Word and use their F&R tool. Works really well and includes ability to work with spaces and other "non-character" characters. Just make sure you save as unformatted TXT (if you put quotes around the whole filename+extension while saving, it will retain its original extension).

For example: Find = <space><space>, Replace=<space> will get rid of extra spaces. (Be sure to run through multiple times until it doesn't find any more)

But you still have to manually choose how it is to operate...

Scott

[KneeRow]

you could, of course write a F&R macro in Word to change many words in one go, but it still wouldn't be fully automated.

check out my Find and replace Word-macro to correct the "I" in any text file, so also an .SRT file:

Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = " i "
.Replacement.Text = " I "
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = " i'"
.Replacement.Text = " I'"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = " i^p"
.Replacement.Text = " I^p"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = "^pi "
.Replacement.Text = "^pI "
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = "^pi'"
.Replacement.Text = "^pI'"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub

This would only be efficient if you have many srt. files that are wrong in the same way, a pattern.