2011 Adobe TV Launches Community Translation Project
Almost all Adobe TV content is in English, but many Adobe TV viewers are not native English speakers. Which is why Adobe TV has launched a Community Translation project. There have already been 154 translations completed, in 25 different languages. Are you fluent in English and at least one other language? Then take part, and your translation will be available as a closed-captioning track on the video, and will also appears as a searchable, interactive transcript alongside the video.
How do I find content that are subtitled, IN ENGLISH? This would be useful for those of us who are deaf and can read English. I'm seeing quite a few videos that would be very beneficial to furthering my technical knowledge but none seem to be closed captioned in English.
Lola, good point, and I don't know the answer, but will check with the Adobe TV team.
--- Ben
Thanks for the heads up. I signed up and was approved to start providing translations from English to Finnish. We'll see how the first one goes. Plan is to do one next week.
@Lola - There are 2 good places to look for subtitled content on Adobe TV.
The first is in the "How To" channel - http://tv.adobe.com/channel/how-to/
These are the primary video tutorials that ship with the Adobe Creative Suite products, and a great deal of the videos in that channel are subtitled (look for the "CC" symbol on the video listings in the show pages, e.g. -- http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-after-effects-cs5/).
In addition, all of the videos available for translation in Adobe TV Community Translation have an English subtitle track. Searching the videos available for translation on the Community Translation pages will help you find those videos.
There are actually 2 reasons for us undertaking the Community Translation project. The first, and obvious goal, is to extend the availability of our content to speakers of other languages. The second is to increase the amount of our content with English subtitles. We're committed to increasing the amount of our content with subtitles, for speakers of all languages, and this new program is helping us to do just that.
Since the basis for a translatable video is an English transcript, which in turn becomes the subtitle track, creating a "translatable video" also gives us the subtitles in English.
Every month we transcribe additional videos, thus creating more videos with English subtitles.
I hope this helps.
Cheers,
-bob