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Crowd-Source Subtitles for YouTube Videos

Written bySolana Larsen
Read this post in Español, Ελληνικά
Posted 15 February 2013 12 years ago

Anyone on YouTube can now sync their account directly to the global subtitling service Amara and invite volunteers to translate videos. Subtitles are created on Amara's platform, but are synced automatically to YouTube.

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