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Amara Open Thoughts: Alessandra and the struggle of a hard of hearing loved one

Amara Open Thoughts is a new series powered by the Participatory Culture Foundation and Amplifying Voices, where we share stories, listen to people, and give voice to our global community of change makers. Guest post written by Alessandra Pace, volunteer and translator for Amara On Demand Recently I lost one of the most important people…

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Inclusion and Belonging

Localization as a gateway for cultural appreciation

The existence of the internet has made it possible for us to be in contact with people from all over the world, people that we might never have had the chance to interact with otherwise. We can be in contact with so many different people and their cultures. The exponential growth in the internet community…

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Culture and Appreciation

English automatic captions and Amara

Hot take: automatic captions are not that cool – auto-magic captions are. Think about it for a second, you’ll get it. Let me help you out. You have lots of stats all over the internet today talking about automatic captions and how cool they can be for accessibility and marketing reasons. I won’t deny that,…

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Accessibility and Captioning

Comic Strip | Amplifying Voices: An ‘I Belong’ Adventure | In 5 Languages

Amplifying Voices, an initiative of the Participatory Culture Foundation (PCF), is building a more inclusive media ecosystem. Using its Amara technology, Amplifying Voices brings together volunteer translators, content and community partners, and funders to ensure everyone has a voice, is able to share their truth, learn from one another, and belong. English | Amplifying Voices: An ‘I Belong’…

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Inclusion and Belonging

Attract more clients: 3 reasons why marketing videos should have subtitles

Marketing videos have skyrocketed in the last few years, and rightly so. People consume video content more than before. For marketing and advertising companies, using captions and subtitles for in-house videos or for client videos could bring in more customers and reach new markets. More importantly, it helps everyone get with the times: today accessibility…

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Captions and Subtitles

Why translation and localization are important parts of my path in life

Making media content available and accessible gives people like me the choice to explore and learn regardless of language barriers. It makes us all more connected, because when we can understand each other’s media, we are closer to understanding each other too.

Culture and Appreciation

3 quick tips from language experts on growing your business with subtitles

With over 2.5 billion people watching video on YouTube each month, these three tips on growing your business with captions and subtitles can help your video (and your business) go further! Let’s start by defining the terms: Captions are same language subtitles, meaning the same language spoken in the video.Subtitles are translated captions into other languages than…

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Captions and Subtitles