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Universal Subtitles (Tech Awards Video)

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    My name's Aleli Alcala and I'm here to represent Universal Subtitles
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    We realized that video was fast becoming the most proliferate content on the internet
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    It delivers content like education, politics, health
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    and because of language barriers, or if someone was deaf or hard of hearing,
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    they would be excluded from participating in the world they live in
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    How can we ensure that each and every one was subtitled and captioned?
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    We looked at Wikipedia and how the power of volunteers enabled that almost impossible task to happen
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    And so we created the technology that combines the power of volunteers with the power of the internet
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    So that each and every one of us can participate
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    in making sure that every video on the web is subtitled and captioned
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    The video can live anywhere and you can pull it into Universal Subtitles
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    subtitle it, and upload it back to where it lived before
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    There's an 8 year old little boy who wants so badly
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    to share a video with his grandmother, who does not speak English
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    So he subtitles the video into Spanish so that it can then be shared with his grandmother
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    And that's the power of this type of technology
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    Our dream, our vision, and our passion is that every video on the web is subtitled and captioned
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    which would allow all of us to participate fully in the world we live in
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Title:
Universal Subtitles (Tech Awards Video)
Description:

Universal Subtitles makes it possible to provide captions
and translations for any web video by engaging the entire
global community to work together to make videos accessible for everyone.

Already thousands of people have come together to translate more than 30,000 videos into dozens of languages.

Video is the fastest growing form of content on the Internet and is quickly becoming an integral part of our daily lives. Now, it is more important than ever to ensure that everyone has access.
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Video Language:
English
Duration:
02:22

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