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Welcome to the first-ever Amara
newsletter. We'll keep these letters simple and helpful, but if you don't
want to get any more, just click
to unsubscribe. Today we're announcing an amazing new YouTube syncing
feature and we had to let you know!
- Dean and
Nicholas
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YouTube Syncing for All!
This is revolutionary! Now any Amara user can
sync subtitles to their personal YouTube account for free. Invite your
viewers to caption and translate your videos and they'll become accessible
to new global audiences. Popular videos get high quality translations
almost immediately – it’s a way that the whole world can watch
at once.
Sync
your YouTube channel >>
For
organizations >>
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Udacity launches a team
Udacity
offers free online courses from top university and industry instructors.
Udacity shares inspiring stories of learners, from Bejing
to Hamburg, putting their new knowledge to work and accomplishing great
things. Udacity has humbly requested help in translating their top quality
free courses into as many languages as possible, in order to make higher
education more accessible around the globe.
Help
Udacity spread higher education >>
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Caption for Deaf and Hard of Hearing
Users
Amara, with the help of some amazing volunteers,
has now launched two teams focused on captioning for Deaf and hard of
hearing people around the world. The Captions
Requested and Music
Captioning teams both invite Deaf and hard of hearing users to request
captions for videos they’d like to watch. Join the teams and help
caption or send us your captioning requests on the deaf-hoh
discussion list.
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Gravitas Film &
Documentaries
Do you like independent film and documentaries?
Then you've got to check out the Gravitas team — they recently
started a community on Amara to help translate their film.
Join
the Gravitas Film & Documentaries team >>
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New Volunteer & Community
Opportunities
We’ve just launched a new volunteer page
that lists some of the most exciting subtitling opportunities on
Amara— take
a look.
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Amara for Organizations
Amara is now offering tools & services for
organizations that need subtitles. Some organizations, like TED, PBS
NewsHour and Twitter use Amara to build subtitling communities
– others are accessing services, such as paid captions. These
offerings help make Amara a sustainable non-profit!
See
Amara's Pro Services >>
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