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Comic Strip | Amplifying Voices: An ‘I Belong’ Adventure | In 5 Languages

Amplifying Voices, an initiative of the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), is building a more inclusive media ecosystem. Using its Amara technology, Amplifying Voices brings together volunteer translators, content and community partners, and funders to ensure everyone has a voice, is able to share their truth, learn from one another, and belong. English | Amplifying Voices: An ‘I Belong’…

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Inclusion and Belonging

Video localization in a nutshell: What makes it different and how to get it right

In this article, we focus on the key questions and decisions that are unique to video localization. Read on to get started building your own video localization strategy. You’re already familiar with localization and are confident that translating your video will add value. You will still need to ensure the translation itself meets local norms,…

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Captions and Subtitles

Attract more clients: 3 reasons why marketing videos should have subtitles

Marketing videos have skyrocketed in the last few years, and rightly so. People consume video content more than before. For marketing and advertising companies, using captions and subtitles for in-house videos or for client videos could bring in more customers and reach new markets. More importantly, it helps everyone get with the times: today accessibility…

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Captions and Subtitles

3 quick tips from language experts on growing your business with subtitles

With over 2.5 billion people watching video on YouTube each month, these three tips on growing your business with captions and subtitles can help your video (and your business) go further! Let’s start by defining the terms: Captions are same language subtitles, meaning the same language spoken in the video.Subtitles are translated captions into other languages than…

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Captions and Subtitles

What are web captions?

Captions make video more accessible no matter where your videos are hosted. But what are the additional benefits of putting captions on your online content?

Solutions and Tools

Crowd Translation and Subtitling: How To Engage Your Community

All it takes is a few multi-lingual viewers to get a translation program started and momentum can be built from there.

Captions and Subtitles

How to add closed captions & subtitles to video

We put together this quick guide on how to create subtitles for a video. We talk a lot about subtitles on this blog: the history, the differences, and the details. And all of that is interesting (to us, and probably to you, too, since you’re reading our blog). But it’s also great to take some…

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Captions and Subtitles