Yesterday, September 30th, was International Translation Day - a day to celebrate the importance of translation in our lives, and the translators who make that work possible! In celebration of #InternationalTranslationDay, we collected stories from our staff about translated videos that had a significant impact on their lives and understanding of translation. We posted … Continue reading International Translation Day Videos
Farsi and Dari: Divergent Variants
There is power in naming a language in the context of its own culture. And we want to put that power in our user’s hands. In addition to updating existing language names to respect local cultures, we also want to provide choices for speakers whose language has more than one name. Dari and Farsi are … Continue reading Farsi and Dari: Divergent Variants
Customer Spotlight: Unrest
Today we want to highlight the work of one of our Amara Platform customers and their award-winning film 'Unrest.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=139&v=JvK5s9BNLzA Twenty-eight year-old Jennifer Brea is working on her PhD at Harvard and months away from marrying the love of her life when she gets a mysterious fever that leaves her bedridden and looking for answers. … Continue reading Customer Spotlight: Unrest
Zarma and Benhti Kenaga’ languages have been added!
This month we added two new languages to the Amara language selector: Behnti Kenaga’, from Alaska, and Zarma, from West Africa. Behnti Kenaga’ [taa] Amara learned about the Doyon Foundation and the 7,000 Languages Project back in April, when we added four native Alaskan Athabaskan (Dena) languages to the Amara language selector. This month they … Continue reading Zarma and Benhti Kenaga’ languages have been added!
Project and Language Managers for Collaboration Teams
Project and Language Managers for Collaboration Teams We have added a new team role into Collaboration teams that will make it easier for teams to manage languages and projects. Team admins can now designate “project managers” and “language managers” from the Member Directory page. Project and language managers are useful for collaboration teams that: Work … Continue reading Project and Language Managers for Collaboration Teams
Release Highlights: Collaboration Team Improvements and Issues with Third-party Sites
Collaboration Team Improvements Managers of Collaboration Teams can now send back several Evaluations at the same time from the Management page > Evaluations tab by selecting them and choosing “Edit.” Learn more about using Evaluations in your workflow on the Amara Knowledge Base! Issues with Third-party Sites Embedding a YouTube video with Amara subtitles used … Continue reading Release Highlights: Collaboration Team Improvements and Issues with Third-party Sites
New Subtitling Solutions from Amara
Catch your audience’s attention in the first few seconds with quality subtitles! Subtitles for online video content are quickly becoming an industry standard, and we at Amara are eager to help you find the right subtitling solution for you. Content with subtitles: Has a much larger audience Has higher viewer comprehension Contains metadata with keywords … Continue reading New Subtitling Solutions from Amara
