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5 Incredible Benefits of Captioning and Subtitling YouTube Videos!

5 Incredible Benefits of Captioning and Subtitling YouTube Videos!

There are a lot of reasons to add captions and/or subtitles to your videos; these 5 are our favorite. #1 – Accessibility and inclusion This is our number one top reason! In order to watch, understand, and/or learn from video content, viewers who are Deaf or hard of hearing rely on captions. And this group…

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

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
Delightful memories and accidental tomato plant, or cooking with kids as education for cultural immersion

Delightful memories and accidental tomato plant, or cooking with kids as education for cultural immersion

The other day, my nephew who is almost 2 years old, visited us with his mom, and was obsessed over the tomato plant I have at the front of my house.  This tomato plant was accidental, meaning it just showed up on my snake plant vase, after I used some home made compost on it….

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Accessibility and Captioning
3 stories on learning languages, my wanderlust gene, and how my glasses saved me from eternal damnation

3 stories on learning languages, my wanderlust gene, and how my glasses saved me from eternal damnation

Put that wanderlust gene variant to good use. When you’re on the train or plane and get bored – grab some Amplifying Voices videos and subtitle them in the languages you speak. Also, tell your friends. When you’re trying to decide which cause you want to support, do it by making sure the message gets out to as many people as possible out there.

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How to share your captioned video online

How to share your captioned video online

You finally finished captioning a video, and maybe even translated your captions into several languages! Congrats! So what’s next? Now you can download your captions or transcriptions in different formats for later use. If you are wondering what formats to download and how to download them, check out this article in the Amara Support Center:…

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Accessibility and Captioning

Amara Video Translation Stats

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.

Development

amara dev updates 2014-07-09

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…

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