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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.

Amara Team Guest Posts

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

Accessibility in education: why using captions and subtitles should be paramount

Today, education is a rollercoaster of possibilities and fun. The last few years, more than ever, have shown that the education industry has been a dynamic process rather than a static, know-it-all environment. Across the globe, schools and universities are implementing necessary changes to fit with the contemporary world that we live in. Educators are…

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Accessibility and Captioning

In a world of privilege, be a subtitle.

Let me explain. As usual, on my Liane’s Morning Talks in the Mirror, I’ll start with a story. Hearing and reading stories was my childhood. I grew up in a part of the world where, every Saturday, everyone would gather around the oldest tree in the village and… you guessed it: share stories. One year,…

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Amara Team Guest Posts

Crowd Translation and Subtitling: How To Engage Your Community

All it takes is a few multi-lingual viewers to get a translation program started and momentum can be built from there.

Accessibility and Captioning