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>it's rarely used and people continue to report spam and abuse. > because many of you rely on community captions, YouTube will be covering the cost of a 6 mont
by cwhiz 6y ago
>it's rarely used and people continue to report spam and abuse.
> because many of you rely on community captions, YouTube will be covering the cost of a 6 month subscription of Amara.org for all creators who have used the Community Contribution feature for at least 3 videos in the last 60 days.
What in the world is their motivation here?? This is the kind of thing a company wouldn’t do if they were worried, at all, about competition.
- yorwba 6y agoThey're not worried about competition in the video captioning market because they're not a video captioning company. They're probably losing money on the feature and are happy to offload the work to someone else.
- cwhiz 6y agoLosing money on the unpaid volunteer community that creates the captions??? Wat
- derefr 6y ago> they're not a video captioning company I mean, Google kind of are a video captioning company. Google Video was created with the goal of letting you search videos by indexing the automatic textual transcriptions of their audio content. YouTube still performs that role for Google Search; that's why Google's automatic transcription is as good as it is already.
- hadlock 6y agoMonitoring crowd-sourced captions on political videos and monitoring for abused/slanting the wording sounds like a Hard Problem, in a political minefield of language nuance.
- cwhiz 6y agoThe owner of the video had to approve the captions. And that is still going to be a requirement because captions still exist.
- renewiltord 6y agoJust so I understand the flow (I don't understand Amara.com's collaboration feature): 1. You see something you want captioned 2. You go to that video's Amara.org page 3. You caption the video there 4. The video creator exports it from there to Youtube. Also, it appears creators can still write captions. Honestly, this doesn't seem like too big a deal.