La storie del NMC Campus (Translators Wanted!)
CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Jun 28, 2007 09:26am
A few weeks ago we shared about a nifty new web video concept where uploaded video is set up so speakers of other languages can add localized captions. We are still impressed with the very 2.0ish idea that dotsub offers — user generated video captions.
In our example, the folks at dotsub seeded our NMC Campus Seriously Engaging video with English captions from the original video (they did this in a very quick time frame, FYI). Just checking in today, I am seeing that someone has done 36% of the video in Italian:
We are hoping with a bit of encouragement (nod nod, wink wink) that we can inspire speakers of the numerous other languages to jump in and try some captioning. It’s just a matter of creating a free account at dotsub, and going to our movie page, and select from the Translate This Film to say a language you know, perhaps…. Abkhazian, Acholi, Afar, Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Armenian, Assamese, Avestan, Aymara, Azerbaijani, Bambara, Bashkir, Basque, Bengali, Bhutani, Bihari, Bikol, Bislama, Bokmal Norwegian, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Burmese, Byelorussian, Cambodian, Cantonese, Cape Verdean Creole, Catalan, Cebuano, Chamorro, Chechen, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Chuokese, Chuvash, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari (Afghan Persian), Dutch, Esperanto, Estonian, Fante, Faroese, Farsi, Fiji, Finnish, Flemish, French, Frisian, Fruilian, Fula, Ga, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Guaran, Gujarati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hebrew, Herero, Hiligaynon, Hindi, Hiri Motu, Hmong, Hungarian, Iban, Icelandic, Ilocano, Indonesian, Interlingua, Inuktitut, Inupiak, Irish (Gaelic), Italian, Iteso, Japadwohla, Japanese, Javanese, Kalenjin, Kamba, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kikuyu, Kinyaruanda, Kirghiz, Kirundi, Komi, Korean, Kpelle, Kumam, Kurdish, Lango, Laothian, Latin, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Lugisu, Lugwere, Lululi, Lunyankole, Lunyoro, Luo, Lusamya, Lusoga, Luxemburgish, Maasai, Macedonian, Madi, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Malinke, Maltese, Mandarin, Manx Gaelic, Maori, Marathi, Marshall, Mirpuri, Moldavian, Mongolian, Nauru, Navajo, Ndebele, Ndonga, Nepali, Nigerian, North, Norwegian, Nuer, Nyanja, Nynorsk Norwegian, Occitan, Oriya, Oromo, Ossetian, Pali, Pananyano, Papiamiento, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Portuguese (Portugal), Punjabi, Pushto, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Sami, Samoan, Sangho, Sanskrit, Sardinian, Scots Gaelic, Serbian, Serbo-Croat, Sesotho, Setswana, Shona, Sindhi, Singhalese, Siswati, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, South Ndebele, Spanish, Sundanese, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tajik, Tamazight, Tamil, Tatar, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Tonga, Tsonga, Turkish, Turkmen, Twi, Uigur, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Volapuk, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zhuang, or Zulu!
This would of course (ahem, nudge nudge, wink, nod, prod) be a fabulous activity for any language teacher, and there are many other videos on the site that could be used for a similar acticity.
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1. Carlos López | July 16th, 2007 at 8:34 am
Here it is. You already have a spanish version of “NMC Campus Seriously Engaging”.
A present from http://www.metaverso.es
Carlos L.
2. CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) | July 16th, 2007 at 8:40 am
Carlos,
Mucho gracias! (that might be the extent of my Spanish for now…)
We really appreciate the effort
3. Duncan Moeketse | August 21st, 2007 at 5:13 am
Nka thabela ho fetolela puong ya Sesotho. How do I get involved, I am Sotho speaking and would like to part of the project.
4. CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) | August 21st, 2007 at 8:34 am
Duncan-
It is very easy (and I will send this to your email address too.
(1) Create an account on the dotsub web site http://dotsub.com/register/index.php
(2) Log in to this account.
(3) Go to our movie (or any other movie’s) page on dotsub:
http://www.dotsub.com/films/nmccampus/index.php
(4) Look on the far right side (this may require some browser scrolling) for the middle blue block labeled “Translate This Film” using an appropriate “from” and “to” languages. The file will play back, with the original language subtitles shown on the left, along with form fields below for you to add the captions for the new langauge.
Or see the basic demo
http://dotsub.com/demo/
5. Beautiful Minds | December 10th, 2007 at 1:31 am
CDB is translation to malayalam over?
BTW, the controls in the movie posted above is not working for me here.!
cant stop/ pause the movie once started.!
6. CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) | December 10th, 2007 at 7:21 am
I cannot speak to the status of translations. The way dotsub works is that anyone who knows another language, can create an account there and add, edit, create a new set of translated captions. We certainly hope speakers of other languages can join in and make this video available in many languages.
Sorry about issues with the player, but we have just embedded the player from dotsub- perhaps try viewing a video on their site to see if it works better.
7. Jacob Lumbroso | February 17th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
The concept is excellent. I’ve been looking for something that might enhance the accessibility of Amharic videos and music for students of Amharic.
We would just have to coordinate with the Amharic speakers with the time to do this!
8. John Boco Kiingati | June 2nd, 2008 at 4:52 am
Kindly give me more information about yourself. I am a translator and would like to join other translators either for a permanent or a part time job. Thanks
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