Building access to global information through subtitles, captions, and localization
Here’s an impressive example of someone stepping up, advocating for what is right, and then following through in a major way. Tyler Oakley, a relatively popular YouTube creator who is best known for LGBT advocacy, posted this video a few days ago – you really have to watch:
In 2014, we focused on developing the Amara platform (making it faster and even more user friendly), building partnerships, and gaining long-term sustainability. In 2015, in addition to continuing this work, we also want to foster greater connections amongst online translation and accessibility communities. We’re starting with this new sub-blog: Community, Accessibility & Translation (aka…
Curious about how effective your crowd translations are? Wondering about your top languages or the diversity of your team? Amara’s enterprise teams, will now show you all the answers. The new stats graphs can be found on the Activities tab of your team.
Amara users have probably noticed some serious speed improvements over the past month. Average page load time has been halved, and some specific pages have seen even more dramatic improvements. Today we’ve deployed another set of changes which mainly affect the video pages. Here’s a quick summary of the features and fixes added to Amara…
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Amara has come a long way in the past 4 years, growing from a humble prototype into a powerful open platform! Today, Amara is used by millions to create, share, and view captions and subtitles — making it possible for more people to engage, participate, and benefit from all of the amazing content online. Developed…
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When the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe occurred in March 2011, many people looked for a precedent that could give them an understanding of what this tragedy might mean in the long run. They soon found one – this year marks the 25th Anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Since March, the Universal Subtitles community has been…
The Libyan conflict has made international headlines this year and the Universal Subtitles community has absolutely taken notice. Our great volunteers have been translating videos into multiple languages, and Universal Subtitles is now being used as a medium through which world news can be shared with everyone. This particular video is extremely popular among people…
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