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?
Delightful memories and accidental tomato plant, or cooking with kids as education for cultural immersion
The other day, my nephew who is almost 2 years old, visited us with his mom, and was obsessed over the tomato plant I have at the front of my house. This tomato plant was accidental, meaning it just showed up on my snake plant vase, after I used some home made compost on it….
Transcribing for Closed Captions
We’ve already given tips on how to transcribe quality captions, but what exactly is transcription? And what is the difference between captioning and transcription? We’ll answer these questions and more while giving you a quick guide on how to transcribe closed captions with quality and confidence! What is Transcription? Transcription is the process of capturing…
In a world of privilege, be a subtitle.
Let me explain. As usual, on my Liane’s Morning Talks in the Mirror, I’ll start with a story. Hearing and reading stories was my childhood. I grew up in a part of the world where, every Saturday, everyone would gather around the oldest tree in the village and… you guessed it: share stories. One year,…
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.
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…
witches are good, a cultural diversity day story from a 12 year old, and how I got my intentional listening skills
When I was a kid, there was a haunted house in my grandma’s village. One of those houses where we, as adventurous kids, would challenge each other to go in and take a peek. No one ever made it past the front door, which was always open. At least, that’s how I remember it. My…