Help us translate the State of the Union!!
We are launching a special project with PBS NewsHour today to translate last night’s State of the Union address into as many languages as we can! Check it out and jump in >>
Category: Accessibility and Captioning
Politieke Chaos crosses lingual-political divide
Belgium is a country with three official languages and a lot of political tension. The video embedded below features Kris Janssens, a Belgian radio personality who is fed up with some of the politicians in his country, generated a lot of traffic on the Universal Subtitles website. In the video Janssens is venting about the…
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Join the OK Go Translation Party!
We just launched our first Translation Party, with OK Go (they did the amazing treadmill music video). Find out more: Join the party!
Dive in: Subtitle a video before 2011
If you’re excited about the potential of open subtitles and translations on the web, then it’s time to get your hands dirty! All you have to do is find a video you’re passionate about and subtitle it (we now support Vimeo, so that’s no excuse for not getting involved). If you’ve never created subtitles before,…
Please help translate our how-to videos
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…
Fantastic Beginnings: Open Subtitles Design Summit
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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Deaf & Hard of Hearing Discussion List
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…