Generate Questions from Movies!

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Have you ever thought of generating questions from the SRT files of Movies?

I don’t know if we can use this but it is pretty exciting when I came to know as a beginner that we can do that.

What is SRT?

In simple terms, the subtitles you see in Amazon Prime, Netflix, Hotstar, HBO, etc are saved in a text file with (.srt) extension with timestamps.

The timestamp is formatted like therefore with the milliseconds rounded to 3 decimal points:

Hours:Minutes: Seconds, Milliseconds

The timeframe is formatted like therefore with associate arrow denoting range:

First Timestamp –> Second Timestamp

The arrow should incorporate 2 hyphens and a right-pointing angle bracket (also referred to as the greater-than sign or carrot).

For example, you can see below from the movie “The Fault in Our Stars”.