Advancing Media Accessibility and Audiovisual Translation
One super important new feature that I forgot in my last post: the Universal Subtitles site is now ready to be translated! If you speak a language other than English and can help us translate it, join a translation team (or several). We expect that many users of the Universal Subtitles service will not speak…
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We are extremely excited about the next release of Universal Subtitles. There is so much good stuff in it. First there is the new widget design. The menu is clearer than ever, it offers easier access to information and options, and it just looks good — we think it’s something that people be delighted to…
We recently released an update to Universal Subtitles that fixes lots of little bugs and adds more polish and functionality to the website. If you’d like to try it out, I suggest subtitling a video (get started now). We’re full steam ahead on development and plan to do a release every few weeks. Technically we’re…
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…