Building access to global information through subtitles, captions, and localization
We are very excited to be organizing the first ever Open Subtitles Design Summit, hosted in NYC on September 29 & 30 and sponsored by The Open Society Institute. The summit marks an incredible opportunity for a diverse group of stakeholders in the caption/subtitle orbit to come together and make real steps towards increasing availability…
Universal Subtitles is an open source project for making a better and more accessible internet for everybody. Today we’re launching a development center to make the process open to anyone interested in getting involved. If you’re interested in contributing, we’d love to have your help. The subtitling widget (see the demo) is written in javascript…
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Today we’re releasing an alpha demo of our subtitling tool. Please, try the demo and give us feedback. You can’t use it to subtitle your own videos yet. But we’ve put up a demo page where you can try out our new approach to subtitling on a sample video. Your feedback will be really helpful,…
We’ve had our heads down for the past month and are very close to releasing an alpha version of Universal Subtitles. The alpha will give everyone access to a preview version of the subtitling widget and the Universal Subtitles website; we’re aiming to release around June 15th. We’ll have many more details here as soon…
Do you know of an organization that needs to get video subtitled? We’re getting ready to roll out a testing site soon, which means people will be subtitling stuff. We’d love to focus some of this effort towards a good cause. If you know of an organization (or work for one) that could use subtitles,…
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This year we were fortunate to be able to participate in the Mozilla Labs Design Challenge, a “series of events to encourage innovation and exerimentation in user interface design for the Web”. The Collaborative Subtitling Design Challenge was an opportunity to get our early prototypes in front of designers and usability experts who could propose…
We were flattered when we found this video on YouTube. It’s by a young woman named Caro, who is very enthusiastic about our project and goals. It’s really motivating to see someone get excited by something you’re working on. Interestingly, one design challenge participant suggested using video as a medium for people (who want subtitles,…