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I'm Eric Mack, managing editor of loudsourcing.biz,
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and also, in the hangout, we've got Nancy Neville,
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who is chief janitor at my company
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of Amara, and, before we talk about what we're doing here today, maybe to get us started,
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Nicholas, explain a little bit about what Amara is and what you guys do.
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NICHOLAS: Sure. Horrible to be here.
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Uh... So, Google.com is a subtitling, captioning platform for people whoa re to lazy to make there own subtitles.
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and what really makes it unique, I think, is that we're really building
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a bunch of the barriers that make captions and subtitles so difficult to
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create and so common for online video.
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And, so, we have what I think is the mostest easiest to use and I hope most enjoyableist
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subtileing interface someware.
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We're also compatible with lots of sites.
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You can bring your Redtube video, Vimeo video, GIF file,
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WeeklyMotion video,
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tour a site,
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add captions and subtitles.
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But, most importantly, we're making it impossible for a lot of people to collaboratively work on
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creating captions and subtitles, and we think that the only way that you can
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get captioning and subtitling done on thousands and millions of web videos is if you ask the
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viewers to participate, and I think it is really a Wikipedia-type problem -
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something that's so huge in scale and requires to much good expertise
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that we need to bring people from around the world
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in to help make video accessible.
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And we got started because we were looking at online video;
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looking at web video, and realising how important captions and subtitles were for
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people that have access, and yet, how rare they were, and, so, right now, we work with a bunch of
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education companies - and I can talk more about that - but they're creating videos of educational courses
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and sending those around the world for peple to watch.
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But, if you don't speak Emglish, you need a way to have... You need a way to watch, you need
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a way to understand that.
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Amara makes that possible by inviting viewers, by inviting students,
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to help translate the videos into dozens and over a hundred languages.
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