Video of President Obama's State of the Union speech has already been translated into seven languages, and additional translation efforts are underway online. The multi-lingual captioning efforts are the result of an election year partnership between PBS Newshour, Universal Subtitles and Mozilla.…
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Khan Academy goes global with crowdsourced subtitles
Salman Khan's popular educational videos can now be watched with subtitles in up to two dozen different languages, thanks to a cooperation between the Khan Academy and Universal Subtitles. Adding captions not only widens Khan's audience, it could also help to avoid future legal challenges.…
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The Universal Subtitles project launched an early test version of its captioning tool in collaboration with the Mozilla Labs design challenge. The tool allows users to watch videos with subtitles in many different languages and also add their own captions through a nifty online subtitle editor.…
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