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Welcoming Streetfilms
Our friends at Streetfilms have just launched Universal Subtitles to engage their viewers. Take a look at this video about Highway Removal, which has already been translated in 9-10 languages: ( {"base_state": {}, "video_url": "http://vimeo.com/21509646"} ) Streetfilms is a resource for people who want to improve the street life of their cities. They produce videos [...]
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“Summer of Code” interns starting soon
I wanted to give a big welcome to our two Summer of Code interns, Misha Amashukeli and Rohan Jain. They will be starting work on two related projects: Universal Subtitles browser extensions, and a system for requesting subtitles from other users. Together, these two features will bring us a big step closer to our vision of making [...]
Translating President Obama: Death of Osama bin Laden
Below is President Obama’s address on the death of Osama bin Laden. We’ve added English captions and are encouraging people to translate the speech. ({ video_url: "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbrwIE_GhrM", video_config: { width: 620, height: 380 } }) Tweet
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Hiring experienced Django / JavaScript developers
Universal Subtitles is looking for an experienced Django/JavaScript developer. This is an ideal gig for someone who wants to build free and open source software to create social change. You’ll be building features to help an active and growing community do world changing work. We’re looking for a web developer who is either (or both): [...]
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Google Summer of Code Ideas
PCF/Universal Subtitles has been accepted as a mentor for the Google Summer of Code program, which gives developers a summer-long stipend to participate in free and open source software projects. As part of the process, we’ve put up a list of possible Summer of Code ideas. Have a look and tell us what you think. [...]
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Help Translate Alive in Egypt Videos
As the courageous protests continue, we’re been able to help the folks at Alive in Egypt make their AIE video page fully translatable. Their site has been attracting many volunteers who are translating voice-to-twitter calls from Egyptians. They have also been aggregating videos from on the ground, but up till now they didn’t have an [...]
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Help us translate the State of the Union!!
We are launching a special project with PBS NewsHour today to translate last night’s State of the Union address into as many languages as we can! Check it out and jump in >>
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Politieke Chaos crosses lingual-political divide
Belgium is a country with three official languages and a lot of political tension. The video embedded below features Kris Janssens, a Belgian radio personality who is fed up with some of the politicians in his country, generated a lot of traffic on the Universal Subtitles website. In the video Janssens is venting about the [...]
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Does Your Org Need Subtitles/Captions?
We’ve seen some amazing successes with volunteer contributed captions and translations recently —see OK Go and PBS NewsHour Translation Parties— but we know that some organizations might prefer to pay for captions. For example, this could allow them to publish a video with English captions from the get go, and then request volunteer help for [...]
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Khan Academy integrates with Universal Subtitles