We profiled Amara last June in our Nifty Websites Collection. The need for translation of videos on the web continues to accelerate as global sharing increases. Amara fits that need and then some.

How It Works

Using Amara is incredibly simple and now with YouTube availability on all personal channels, creators can enlist the aid of their viewers to translate the videos and spread their knowledge, message or all out hilarity to the world.

Channel owners/creators simply need to visit Amara.org and connect their channel. Moving forward, all videos on that channel will include a link for viewers to offer up translation for videos.  Here’s a direct link to the connection page.

[blockquote align=”center” style=”style1″]The only way to get a video translated into the world’s languages is to invite the world’s viewers to help. No YouTube creator speaks every language and automated transcription and translation is still not high enough quality to understand the content of a video. But viewers watching from around the world are excited to help others watch,” said Nicholas Reville, Executive Director of Amara[/blockquote]

About Amara

[blockquote align=”center” style=”style4″]With customers such as, Netflix, Twitter, PBS, TED Talks, Udacity, and Coursera, Amara gives individuals, communities, and larger organizations the power to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video. Amara’s revolutionary crowdsourcing approach offers a robust API that allows companies to use the platform for internal collaboration as well as allowing individual customers to translate video content. Backed by a million dollars in funding from the Knight Foundation and Mozilla, Amara has received awards from the Federal Communications Commission, the United Nations and TechAwards. For more information, visit Amara.org and follow @AmaraSubs on Twitter.[/blockquote]

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Video continues to dominate the web. There are endless amounts of videos uploaded everyday. However, not all videos can be created in the viewers native language so a lot of video is left unseen by users. Additionally, hearing impaired viewers get almost no benefit from video that relies heavily on audio to present its message. Amara is an easy way to caption and translate existing videos.

Through the Amara service, users can type out the dialogue to create clear, readable subtitles for videos. The process is 3-part. First a video URL is pasted into the Amara input box, then the video speech is typed out to create the subtitle boxes. Finally, if necessary, the subtitles are synced to the video and Amara provides an embed code for users to use on their websites, blogs or wherever.

Amara videos with subtitles are also capable of being translated by other users. Now, instead of language being a barrier it can become an opportunity to expand an audience. Content creators are very aware that their viewers don’t all speak the same native language, by using Amara subtitles and translations webmasters can reach a more global community and boost their overall relevance on the web.

Amara supports videos from popular services such as YouTube and others and many video formats (MP4, theora, and others). Amara is supported by Mozilla, the makers of Firefox, as well as other foundations who believe in the accessibility of video for all. Those who believe in the project and want to help contribute can volunteer to translate and caption existing videos.

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