Advancing Media Accessibility and Audiovisual Translation
Highlights from our latest deploy Editor notes Users can now add notes in the editor as they are working on subtitles. Useful as a simple reminder to self, or a way to pass on information to others who may edit later. These changes are specific to the current editor and are not implemented in the…
Amara’s new transcript viewer Today we started using our new transcript viewer on every video embed on our site. The new embedder boasts a sleak design as it displays the searchable transcript. You can click on any phrase to jump to that place in the video, easily switch back and forth between languages, and follow…
Managing your Amara Enterprise team has just gotten easier! Over the past few weeks we’ve been focusing on rolling out an updated set of tools for Amara Enterprise Team Admins. If you haven’t heard about Amara Enterprise, yet, well let’s just say it’s the easiest way to get your videos captioned and it keeps getting…
We’re working on a fresh release of Universal Subtitles right now and we need help with testing. You don’t need to know anything about programming to get involved! As a non-profit and collaborative project we wholly depend on volunteers at every stage of the process. We already have a fantastic core group of testers, but…
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We think this is so important, we added a permanent page to the site. In the near future, we’ll go into more detail about why accessibility matters so much to us (and for the internet), but for the moment I’ve copied the text from the page here: Accessibility is the primary motivator behind Universal Subtitles….
Update: Click here to subtitle your video > Here’s the problem: web video is beginning to rival television, but there isn’t a good open resource for subtitling. Here’s our mission: we’re trying to make captioning, subtitling, and translating video publicly accessible in a way that’s free and open, just like the Web. Our approach: Make…
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