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So we're here in Google Plus Hangout on the air.
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I'm Eric Mack, managing editor of Crowdsourcing.org,
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and also, in the hangout, we've got Nicholas Neville,
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who is co-founder and executive director of Amara
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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. Nice to be here.
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Uh... So, Amara.org is a subtitling, captioning - subtitling and captioning platform,
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and what really makes it unique, I think, is that we're really knocking down
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a bunch of the barriers that make captions and subtitles
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so difficult to create and so rare for online video.
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And, so, we have what I think is the easiest to use and I hope most enjoyable
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subtitling interface anywhere.
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We're also compatible with lots of sites.
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You can bring your YouTube video, Vimeo video, HTML file,
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DailyMotion video, tour a site,
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add captions and subtitles.
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But, most importantly, we're making it possible for a lot of people
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to collaboratively work on creating captions and subtitles,
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and we think that the only way that you can get captioning and subtitling done on thousands and millions of web videos
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is if you ask the 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 so much distributed 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, looking at web video,
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and realising how important captions and subtitles were for people that have access,
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and yet, how rare they were. And, so, right now, we work with a bunch of education companies
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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 English, you need a way to have...
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You need a way to watch, you need 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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