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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

Using Automatic Captions Responsibly

There are more subtitling tools for video content creators to use now than ever. And some of these tools do work for you, which can be great. Automatic captioning tools can be a great start for people trying to optimize their content to reach wider audiences. The struggle that a lot of creators face is…

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Accessibility and Captioning

Comparing Open Captions and Closed Captions

The simple answer is that closed captions can be turned off and open captions cannot be turned off on a video. What you’ll find in this blog post: Definition of Open vs. Closed Captions Similarities Between Open and Closed Captions Pros and Cons: Open Captions Pros and Cons: Closed Captions Is it Possible to Use…

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Accessibility and Captioning

What is Localization?

Localization is the process of adapting language to a local culture’s norms and expectations. Languages are not bound by national borders. And languages vary from region to region, dialect to dialect, and accent to accent. Differences in vocabulary, spelling, and cultural references are all important to local audiences. For instance, different dialects of German are…

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Captions and Subtitles