Free captioning of YouTube videos
SubPLY promises to caption your YouTube videos for free. Leaving aside the sustainability of that business model, their willingness to step into this void is much appreciated. FCC regulations require captioning for broadcast video, but leave Internet video alone (for now). This has created a growing gap as online video becomes more ubiquitous, useful and unique.
Although some regulation of online distribution will probably arrive sometime, it’ll probably only cover large-market, for-profit content that’s similar to what’s broadcast now. It’s unlikely that you’ll ever be forced to caption the funny things your kids say at family reunions.
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May 15th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
I actually tried this out… I had a 3 minute YouTube video and the accuracy of Subply was less than 50%. The plus, is that you get a 50% start on editing for free but I think a live transcriber for $3 and 99% accuracy is a better deal. I couldn’t edit this Subply document for less than $30 on my student assistants salary ($10/hr).