Captions for YouTube, iTunesU, Academic Earth and Hulu

PJB · 06-01-2009, 06:14 PM

YouTube has 30,000 educational videos from uiversities and most are not captioned. Academic earth (academicearth.org) has great content with no method for delivering captions, Hulu has great TV shows (owned by NBC) and few are captioned, and iTunesU has 100,000 educational materials, most not captioned. By law, section 504 (effective communications) the educational ones should be captioned. There is a place to make comments on YouTube--you can write it. I work for a captioning and trasncription company (http://www/automaticsync.com) funded in part by the department of ed, and of course, want to caption the world. But I don't understand how they get away with it. I am working with the companies (or trying) to show how captioning can have sponsors, and how we can automate the process of transcribing (with humans, not speech recognition) but unless there is action-they don't move. Two local colleges were sued by the Coalition for the blind and spent $2m in legal fees. That would pay for a lot of captioning. I hope you all speak out. They can offer searchable transcripts which help all students. I feel for you guys--I have worked with lots of colleges who try hard but they need the portals to make it easier.

act2normal · 06-11-2009, 08:28 PM

I'm working on Captioning popular youtube videos. The project is called "Muuttube", and i've begun messaging youtube "celebs" to ask for permission to caption their work.

If I get enough yes', I can estimate captioned videos starting around next week, maybe wednesday?

I really just want to help, and if there are any channels that you'd like subbed, I'd be happy to ask the user if they'd allow me to caption their work!

Right now Muuttube is in it's infancy, so basic information can be found here: Lacking Studios - Lacking Entertainment though I will be producing a separate site for Muuttube in the near future!

(oh, and I'm not just working on transcripts for what they said, but real time subtitles for uninterrupted viewing!)

Buffalo · 06-12-2009, 12:18 AM

Thanks PBJ for the acadamic earth link. I just send them the feedback on the lack of the subtitles. I didn't know about that link and it looks so good. It is too bad that they are not accessible for the deaf.

LuciaDisturbed · 06-21-2009, 02:51 AM

I wish everything would be captioned or subtitled! I hate that there is like 75% of movies on Hulu still not captioned, especially really good movies!

Lissa · 06-21-2009, 08:37 AM

I agree!!

Bopkasen · 07-09-2009, 06:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by PJB

YouTube has 30,000 educational videos from uiversities and most are not captioned. Academic earth (academicearth.org) has great content with no method for delivering captions, Hulu has great TV shows (owned by NBC) and few are captioned, and iTunesU has 100,000 educational materials, most not captioned. By law, section 504 (effective communications) the educational ones should be captioned. There is a place to make comments on YouTube--you can write it. I work for a captioning and trasncription company (http://www/automaticsync.com) funded in part by the department of ed, and of course, want to caption the world. But I don't understand how they get away with it. I am working with the companies (or trying) to show how captioning can have sponsors, and how we can automate the process of transcribing (with humans, not speech recognition) but unless there is action-they don't move. Two local colleges were sued by the Coalition for the blind and spent $2m in legal fees. That would pay for a lot of captioning. I hope you all speak out. They can offer searchable transcripts which help all students. I feel for you guys--I have worked with lots of colleges who try hard but they need the portals to make it easier.

I just made Caption for one of my video, this job isn't a walk in the park. This is a non-profit or profitable job. It take 4 hours to caption a 3 mins 30 seconds long video for me. I am expecting a shorter time to caption a 3 mins and half video.

People are NOT technical when come to Caption and they don't know what professional caption might work.

YouTube INSTEAD of suggesting an open source software, publically told people to pay someone in fee or make your own.

I used the open source software that make Caption. It have to be the correct format according to YouTube standard but that was little to figure that out.

People without technical knowledge is neglecting YouTube's caption. YouTube can't force people and YouTube is more of a democratic-republican style community.

Here is my sample of my work

YouTube - Best July 4th Video Dedicated To The United States Military

whatdidyousay! · 07-09-2009, 08:15 PM

People were all over me for posting a video with no CC ! If has someone singing and I doubt if a lot of people will be able to hear it! I have nothing against the video, I did send some items to the troops.

06-01-2009, 06:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
PJB Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1	Captions for YouTube, iTunesU, Academic Earth and Hulu YouTube has 30,000 educational videos from uiversities and most are not captioned. Academic earth (academicearth.org) has great content with no method for delivering captions, Hulu has great TV shows (owned by NBC) and few are captioned, and iTunesU has 100,000 educational materials, most not captioned. By law, section 504 (effective communications) the educational ones should be captioned. There is a place to make comments on YouTube--you can write it. I work for a captioning and trasncription company (http://www/automaticsync.com) funded in part by the department of ed, and of course, want to caption the world. But I don't understand how they get away with it. I am working with the companies (or trying) to show how captioning can have sponsors, and how we can automate the process of transcribing (with humans, not speech recognition) but unless there is action-they don't move. Two local colleges were sued by the Coalition for the blind and spent $2m in legal fees. That would pay for a lot of captioning. I hope you all speak out. They can offer searchable transcripts which help all students. I feel for you guys--I have worked with lots of colleges who try hard but they need the portals to make it easier.

06-11-2009, 08:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
act2normal Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 1	Muuttube I'm working on Captioning popular youtube videos. The project is called "Muuttube", and i've begun messaging youtube "celebs" to ask for permission to caption their work. If I get enough yes', I can estimate captioned videos starting around next week, maybe wednesday? I really just want to help, and if there are any channels that you'd like subbed, I'd be happy to ask the user if they'd allow me to caption their work! Right now Muuttube is in it's infancy, so basic information can be found here: Lacking Studios - Lacking Entertainment though I will be producing a separate site for Muuttube in the near future! (oh, and I'm not just working on transcripts for what they said, but real time subtitles for uninterrupted viewing!)

06-12-2009, 12:18 AM	#3 (permalink)
Buffalo Anobium Pertinax Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 2,483	Thanks PBJ for the acadamic earth link. I just send them the feedback on the lack of the subtitles. I didn't know about that link and it looks so good. It is too bad that they are not accessible for the deaf. __________________ It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem. - Gilbert Chesterton

06-21-2009, 02:51 AM	#4 (permalink)
LuciaDisturbed Amateur Psychiatrist Join Date: May 2006 Location: San Antonio, Texas Posts: 6,658	I wish everything would be captioned or subtitled! I hate that there is like 75% of movies on Hulu still not captioned, especially really good movies! __________________ "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." - Philosopher George Santayana. Implanted left ear 10/11/06, activated 10/16/06 - Nucleus Freedom My own CI experience, my views on CI and ASL and Deaf Culture and Society DeviantArt

06-21-2009, 08:37 AM	#5 (permalink)
Lissa Just me....Lissa Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 3,093 Blog Entries: 3	I agree!! __________________ Left Ear Nucleus Freedom Implanted-October 25th 2000 Activation-November 28th 2000

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07-09-2009, 08:15 PM	#7 (permalink)
whatdidyousay! Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 749	People were all over me for posting a video with no CC ! If has someone singing and I doubt if a lot of people will be able to hear it! I have nothing against the video, I did send some items to the troops.

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