Building access to global information through subtitles, captions, and localization
Hello! As part of our ongoing effort to ensure our privacy policy is clear, accurate, and easy to read, we have just made a minor update. Please note that this policy applies to the Amara and Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF) websites, for all users globally. Amara is an initiative of the nonprofit PCF. Please feel…
Now Amara users like you can add subtitles in Tigrinya by selecting it from the dropdown menu before you enter the Amara Subtitle Editor.
We are proud to announce that Amara added a new language available for subtitling: Tamazight! Now Amara users like you can add subtitles in Tamazight to videos. Select it from the dropdown menu and then enter the Amara Subtitle Editor to start subtitles. Search “Tamazight” or the language code “zgh” to find it quickly in…
We are proud to announce that Amara supports the Tedaga language! Supporting new languages on Amara helps strengthen their status on the global stage, and encourages its speakers to translate media into their language for local language communities to enjoy. We encourage members of our community to suggest additional languages to further our efforts. If…
Our subtitle editor is now more intuitive and effective than ever.
Two new subtitle languages are now supported on Amara: Mirandese from Portugal and Nhengatu from Brazil. We are happy to share more about these languages! Mirandese (mwl) Mirandese is part of the Indo-European language family and it is spoken in the Northeast population of Portugal. It is a co-official language of the town Miranda do Douro…
There’s an old version of the Amara video embedder that a small number of external websites still seem to be using. As we clean up our code so that we can develop faster, we’re going to stop supporting that old version (the widgetizer) on July 15th. Our more current embedder is more reliable, with a…
