Advancing Media Accessibility and Audiovisual Translation
Soon we’ll make a whole bunch of statistics available, but we wanted to start with a single number on our homepage that answers the question: “How many videos have been submitted to the Universal Subtitles site for captioning and translation?” Today, the answer is a hair more than 2,000 videos. Whenever someone goes through the…
You can enable Universal Subtitles on your video in less than one minute, here’s how: Step 1: Take an existing video Copy the URL for an existing video that you have on the web. Compatible formats & services include .mp4, .ogv, .webm, .flv, YouTube, Vimeo, Blip.tv, Dailymotion, and we’re always adding more. Step 2: Add…
We’ve had a few requests to add captions and subtitles to the “How to use Universal Subtitles” videos that pop up when you begin using our subtitle creation interface. While the request comes as no surprise, we have this funny issue where we can’t easily embed the subtitling widget/interface into videos that are already inside…
Wikimedia Commons, a sibling project to Wikipedia, just began integration and testing of Universal Subtitles. We’re very encouraged by this and hope that Universal Subtitles may someday help people caption and translate videos on Wikipedia itself. Michael Dale, an open video hacker and longtime Wikimedian that has been leading the integration, writes on the Wikimedia…
Late last week, the inaugural Open Subtitles Design Summit convened. On September 29th, forty-five people, all dedicated to some aspect of captioning and/or subtitling, arrived at the beautiful OpenPlans penthouse in NYC’s Soho neighborhood. The self-introductions immediately made it clear that there was a lot of diversity in the group—backgrounds ran the gamut: engineers, accessibility…
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Thanks to Sebastien Agnot and the Dailymotion team for a quick response in updating their API to give us more fine-grained timing information! We got Dailymotion videos working pretty well, but things felt a bit sluggish and unsynchronized. Their API did not give us the same fine-grained timing information that, for example, the YouTube API…
We’ve just launched a discussion list for users of Universal Subtitles who are deaf, hard of hearing, and/or passionate about the issues. We aim to make it a safe place to discuss anything related to: deaf or hard of hearing culture, open technology, and of course captions & subtitles of all sorts. We have a…