[games_access] Open Captions - Beta site

[Reid Kimball]

I give OpenCaptions an enthusiastic thumbs up. It's really great to
see someone taking action in this area. I've been really worried about
networks like ABC and NBC putting their popular shows online, but not
providing captions. I expect that viewing TV programming on the
internet will explode in the years to come. When that happens, the
battle to get those programs closed captioned will happen all over
again. TV had been around for decades before closed captioning was
first introduced and mandated by law in the 70's.

I gave John suggestions to make the site community focused. If that
happens, I can see thousands of videos being closed captioned by a
community of people.

-Reid

On 1/11/07, d. michelle hinn <hinn at uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Hi Amit!
>
> So great to hear from you again -- what's the latest on the chapter
> you are working on? Can you remind us where the forums are? I'm
> afraid we've all been buried by the holidays, GDC prep, etc!
>
> This Open Captions sounds interesting -- Reid? I'd be interested in
> your take on this. Actually...I have miles of dissertation video I
> should YouTube...I'll try it out!
>
> Michelle
>
> >My friend and colleague from NYU John Schimmel (schimmel at nyu.edu) has just
> >released his new project-  http://www.opencaptions.com/. His mission -
> >collaborative captioning of video on the web! This is one of the best
> >projects I've seen in a while. In his own words:
> >
> >######
> >
> >So I've been working on a project called Open Captions since Oct. (I program
> >really slow), and it's a web site that allows you to add captions/subtitles
> >to videos that already exist on the Internet - "Let the masses caption
> >videos for their friends and relatives because we don't want the Internet to
> >forget anyone" type of website.
> >It currently works with any Google video, YouTube video or Quicktime
> >URL.   I have a good working version online now, excluding Internet
> >Explorer users,  you can see it here, http://www.opencaptions.com/ video .
> >
> >I would like to get some people using it, teachers, video bloggers,
> >diplomats, etc. As well as deaf people and those who are multilingual. If
> >you have any friends who might be interested please pass the website on to
> >them.  And feel free to give it a try yourself.
> >
> >Some quickies about the site,
> >* A forum and blog are going up shortly.
> >* Caption translation / mechanical turk  like feature is in the works to
> >turn existing transcriptions into subtitles.
> >* Yeah, the interface needs a makeover. Ideas?
> >* IE browser is a pain in the arse.
> >* Captioning is tedious and takes about 3 times longer than the video
> >itself. Don't try to caption a Noam Chomsky video, you'll get hurt.
> >
> >Stay warm.
> >
> >Thanks!
> >John
> >
> >######
> >
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