{"id":21897,"date":"2013-02-14T17:03:33","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/?p=21897"},"modified":"2013-02-14T17:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-14T22:30:51","slug":"what-is-amara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deafnetwork.com\/wordpress\/blog\/2013\/02\/14\/what-is-amara\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Amara?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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What is Amara?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Amara gives individuals, communities, and larger organizations the power to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video. The tools are free and open source and make the work of subtitling and translating video simpler, more appealing, and, most of all, more collaborative.<\/p>\n

The benefits of captioning and subtitling are immense:<\/p>\n

\"cc\"<\/a>* Captions make videos accessible for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing
\n* Translations make it possible for all of us to watch video in languages that we don’t speak
\n* Video creators get: better SEO, more views, access to a far bigger (potentially multilingual and global) audience, accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing viewers, and more<\/p>\n

Amara is composed of three main parts:<\/p>\n

* A subtitle creation and viewing tool (aka the widget)
\n* A collaborative subtitling website
\n* An open protocol for subtitle search\/delivery<\/p>\n

Everything we do is available under the open source AGPL license.<\/p>\n

Our Organization<\/p>\n

Participatory Culture Foundation is a non-profit organization building free and open tools for more a democratic and decentralized media. Other projects of ours include Miro, Miro Video Converter, Miro Community, and Open Video Alliance.<\/p>\n

Amara is a featured project of Mozilla Drumbeat, and the Mozilla Foundation has provided development support. Open Society Institute and the MacArthur Foundation are also financial supporters.<\/p>\n

Captions Requested<\/p>\n

These are videos that our deaf and hard-of-hearing users have asked the Amara community to caption. Join the team – via http:\/\/bit.ly\/Join_CR<\/a> – and help us make these videos accessible to everyone. Are you deaf or hard of hearing? Feel free to submit a video to this team or send your request to our Deaf HoH email list: http:\/\/groups.google.com\/group\/universal-subtitles-deaf-hoh<\/a><\/p>\n

Join Amara\u2019s Global Volunteer Community!<\/p>\n

Amara is a non-profit and open-source project. We are working to make video accessible to people who are deaf and hard of hearing and for everyone who wants to watch a video in a language that they don\u2019t speak. Help us translate and caption videos to make them accessible for everyone!<\/p>\n

http:\/\/about.amara.org\/volunteer\/<\/a><\/p>\n

SOURCE:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.amara.org\/en\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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