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Claude Almansi

Amara Support Center : How can I decline a task - 0 views

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Amara Support Solutions amarasupport task tasks

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  • How can I decline a task
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      This is still the page that was already obsolete when I submitted the ticket http://support.universalsubtitles.org/support/tickets/2176 for it on June 25, 2012 closed unanswered by Darren Bridenbeck on July 29, 2012. Here is the ticket's content: TED videos are a very particular case, because TED wants workflowed tasks, has provided for them in the settings, and has an external-to-Amara communication support. The problem I have is with tasks arbitrarily imposed by the Amara software in groups that don't want them and whose settings don't foresee them. What happens if I delete such a task? Does it get reassigned to an admin working for Amara, or at random to any other participant of the group, possibly already struggling with Amara-arbitrarily-imposed tasks her/himself? Then your screenshot also shows the Reassign option: that option does not appear to the assignee if s/he is a member. I don't know about managers, not having yet been hit by an Amara imposed task in a team where I am one. Moreover: in http://www.universalsubtitles.org/en/teams/newshour/tasks/ , there is a task assigned to me to "Transcribe English Subtitles" of http://www.universalsubtitles.org/videos/4cQljmM3piqA/info/watch-marco-rubios-full-speech-on-immi…, without a link to the latest draft, because Amara also fully deleted that draft, which amounted to the transcript of the first 9 min+ of the video (the 2 revisions I made are still mentioned in the activity stream in my dashboard page, over 9 hours after that arbitrary deletion). For that task, the drop-down menu only offers me two options: Start Now or Upload Draft. No way to decline it. So if you insist on having screenshots about tasks, you should have one for each of the fanciful ways Amara presents tasks to people, and use a video added to a normal team where tasks are arbitrarily imposed by Amara, not a video added to TED where tasks are a choice.
  • Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
     
    "Solutions → Amara FAQ and How-to Articles → Amara Teams"
Claude Almansi

Amara Support Center : How do I translate subtitles? - 0 views

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Amara Solutions support subtitles translate bing

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  • Claude Almansi on 24 Jul 12
     
    "Solutions → Amara FAQ and How-to Articles → Transcribing and Translating"
  • Claude Almansi on 24 Jul 12
     
    Still obsolete, in spite of ticket http://support.universalsubtitles.org/support/tickets/822 April 25, 2012.
Claude Almansi

Amara Support Center : Setting up your account - 0 views

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Amara Support Solutions team amarasupport

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  • Go to http://www.amara.org
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      So Amara has acquired http://www.amara.org since May 2012, according to a whois. Yet the link still redirects to http://www.universalsubtitles.org
  • You can either create an account directly through Amara, or if you can access Amara with any of your twitter, OpenID, Google, facebook, or TED logins.
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      It should read: "... or you can access Amara..." (without "if")
  • hover over the “me” link in the upper righthand corner of any page in Amara
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      The link is not called "me" but people's usernames.
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  • Was this article useful? Yes or No
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      If you click "No", you are invited to submit a ticket. And Amara has now decided to close all tickets and ask users to use the forum instead. So something must be changed: either this forum-only policy, or the link on "No" in the feedback dialogue.
  • You can add multiple languages
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      "You can add further languages" would be clearer.
  • Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
     
    "Solutions → Amara FAQ and How-to Articles → Getting Started as a Team Member"
Claude Almansi

WebCite 4 "Subtitles for full screen viewing please!" - 0 views

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amara fullscreen_nosubs WebCite 2011-09-18 2011-09-23 2011-09-27 2011-09-28 2011-11-18 jakov Zheng Shamraeva

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  • Claude Almansi on 10 Jul 12
     
    jakov September 18, 2011 @ 05:15 PM via web Hi there! It would be great to have the subtitles also in full screen mode (e.g. over youtube videos). Maybe there could be a toggle button for this? Support Staff 2 Posted by Craig Zheng on September 23, 2011 @ 08:18 PM This is one we've been working on. Hope to have it ready soon! 3 Posted by jakov on September 27, 2011 @ 06:10 PM looking forward to this ;) 4 Posted by Jason on September 28, 2011 @ 11:53 PM hasn't this feature been available in the past? Support Staff 5 Posted by m.shamraeva on November 18, 2011 @ 08:55 AM Not yet, I am afraid. Sorry for the inconvenience and please stay tuned for updates! Best regards, Margarita Shamraeva QA Analyst UniversalSubtitles team
Claude Almansi

Amara Support Center : How to input subtitles after submitting a video to Amara - 0 views

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Amara Solutions howto how-tos help

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  • Once you've submitted a video to Amara, you'll land on the Typing page
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 24 Jul 12
       
      No. You'll land on the main page for subtitling the video. To get to the transcribing (phase 1) of the widget, you must first request the opening of the subtitling widget.
  • similar to the image below
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 24 Jul 12
       
      No: the interface has changed: there are 4 stages now, not 3.
  • which
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  • ally pauses after each 8 seconds
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 24 Jul 12
       
      No: 4 seconds now.
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Claude Almansi

Amara Support Center : How do I download subtitles from Amara and upload them to my You... - 0 views

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Amara support solutions subtitles download

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  • YouTube
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 24 Jul 12
       
      Why only YouTube? subs made with Amara can be added to videos on other platforms too.
  • At present, YouTube uses Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for English videos and transcripts, with plans to roll out this service for other languages
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 24 Jul 12
       
      Obsolete: YT has already added Japanese and Spanish, at least.
  • Click the down-facing arrow that is to the right of the Edit button.  
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 24 Jul 12
       
      The screenshot is obsolete.
Claude Almansi

Amara Support Center : Joining Teams - 0 views

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Amara Support Solutions team amarasupport join

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  • The three processes for joining a team is
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      ... are
  • one of the team members will need to invite you first
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      A team where joining is by invitation only is hardly likely to let any member invite other people. So an explanation on how to use the filter to find the team's admins might be useful, especially in large teams that often have totally inactive admins.
  • Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
     
    "Solutions → Amara FAQ and How-to Articles → Getting Started as a Team Member"
Claude Almansi

Amara Support Center : What's a "Task" and why does it matter? - 0 views

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Amara Support Solutions team amarasupport task tasks

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  • in order for a subtitle to become published
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      ... for a set of subtitles...
  • on a team
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      Not only "to be published on a team": to be published at all.
  • The types of tasks required for publishing varies among teams.
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      Either "The types... vary" or "The type... varies".
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      "... varies from team to team" rather than "varies among teams".
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  • There are four different types of tasks:
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      This list should be reworded in better, simpler English.
  • You’re going to want to find an unassigned task, which means that no one else is working on it at the moment.
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      The Tasks tab links to the /tasks/?assignee=none page anyway, which only shows unassigned tasks
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      This also means that once someone has started working on a task, it doesn't appear anymore in the page linked to by the Tasks tab.
  • which can vary by team
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
       
      What should be done when a team hasn't configured a due date, and thus tasks remain assigned indefinitely to the person who started it?
  • Claude Almansi on 20 Jul 12
     
    "Solutions → Amara FAQ and How-to Articles → Getting Started as a Team Member"
Claude Almansi

Video Captions : Adding / Editing captions - YouTube - Broadcast Yourself. - 0 views

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captioning subtitles youtube help multilingual accessibility

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  • Claude Almansi on 23 Mar 09
     
    To add captions or subtitles to one of your videos, you'll need to have files with the captions/subtitles in them. (...) We currently support a simple subtitle format that is compatible with the formats known as SubViewer (*.SUB) and SubRip (*.SRT).
Claude Almansi

NAD Files Comments on Copyright Exemption for Captions | National Association of the Deaf - 0 views

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NAD National Association of the Deaf caption captioning captions copyright exemption accessb4copyright

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  • Claude Almansi on 04 Mar 12
     
    "On February 10, 2012, the National Association of the Deaf (NAD) took the lead, and was joined by several other consumer groups, in submitting comments in support of a petition filed by Telecommunications for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing, Inc., Gallaudet University, and Participatory Culture Foundation requesting an exemption for certain classes of work from the anti-circumvention provisions of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). Two of these exemption requests relate to closed captioning - one for IP based media and the other for fixed-disc based media. These exemptions will allow third parties to add or improve closed captioning on video programs without having to get permission from the copyright owner. ...." (with link to the text of the exemption)
  • Claude Almansi on 04 Mar 12
     
    The linked-to text of the exemption request is remarkavly clear and could bevery useful model in similar cases in other countries.
Claude Almansi

Amara Support Center : "(in progress)" ghost subtitles - 0 views

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Amara taskblocked subs subtitles team musiccaptioning

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  • Claude Almansi on 13 Jun 12
     
    From June 7 @ 02:00 AM: about subs task-blocked by Amara software in teams, mostly in the Music Captioning team
Claude Almansi

Amara Support Center : Don't want Amara-imposed "Draft status" blocks? Lie to the softw... - 0 views

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Amara taskblocked subs subtitles team musiccaptioning

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  • Claude Almansi on 13 Jun 12
     
    How to avoid Amara-taskblocked subs in videos added to teams that have not activated tasks and workflows. Actually general, but tagged musiccaptioning for easier retrieval.
Claude Almansi

Accessible Twitter by Nick DeNardis .eduGuru Feb 18 09 - 0 views

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twitter eduguru accessibility accessible twitter accessibilità

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  • Claude Almansi on 23 Mar 09
     
    Using purely the public twitter API Dennis has created an accessible version of Twitter. The site http://accessibletwitter.com/ aims to fix all of the issues above and continue to support and advocate for twitter to be accessible to all. Below is the current progress of the project.
Claude Almansi

Open Letter to Authors | Reading Rights - Mar 29 09 - 0 views

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readingrights authors' guild Kindle2 tts text-to-speech blind reading disabled

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  • Claude Almansi on 02 Apr 09
     
    Sadly, the Authors Guild does not support equal access for us. The Guild has told us that to read your books with text-to-speech we must either submit to a burdensome special registration system and prove our disabilities -- or pay extra. The Guild's position is outrageous and discriminates against the millions of people with print disabilities who are eager to be your readers and customers.
Claude Almansi

Knowledge Ecology Notes » KEI Statement on Authors Guild attack on Kindle 2 s... - 0 views

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KEI keionline Love authors' guild Amazon kindle2 protest

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  • Claude Almansi on 02 Apr 09
     
    The Authors Guild is pressuring Amazon to modify the Kindle 2 so that the synthetic speech function can only be used with the express authorization of the owner of the copyright of a work. A coalition of organizations that represent or work with persons with reading disabilities is organizing a protest to persuade the Guild to change its position. KEI supports the protest, and makes this statement on the Kindle 2 issue:
Claude Almansi

Tools for DIY Captioning | Collaborative for Communication Access via Captioning - 0 views

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  • Overstream.net is another online captioning tool
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      Overstream does not work anymore.
  • A question that often comes up is how to “replace” the original YouTube video (without cc) with the newly cc’d version one creates with Universal Subtitles
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      1. It's not a matter of "replacing" the original video, but of adding the CC captions to it. 2. It does not only work with YouTube videos, but with videos hosted on any platform that supports CC (Internet Archive e.g.) 3. This does not only work with CC captions created on Universal Subtitles - well, Amara now - but with any CC captions
  • Universal
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      See above: this works with any CC captions, no matter what application you create them with.
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  • you can NOT download a fully captioned video at this time
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      But you can download the video separately, and then play both the video and the captions on your computer with a desktop application.
  • You may have garbage content to remove near the beginning or end of the file if there is extra content in your transcript file, music, or other notations
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      No: the garbage content is produced by saving the Word file as .doc or as .rtf. Save as UTF-8 encoded plain text, with the original .sbv extension if Word lets you. Otherwise, with the .txt extension, and change the extension from .txt to .sbv afterwards.
  • Make changes to the .sbv file by opening in Word
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      Editing an .sbv file in Word is tricky: you might accidently delete some time codes. Much easier NOT to make the video private, and create a captioning page from it in an online app like Amara or DotSUB, add the caption file there and edit it there. Then download the edited captions and add them to YT. If you mind having the rough YT-produced captions showing, just write in the decription that they are still in progress.
  • Save as the same file type.
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      Actually: save with the same file extension - .sbv in your example - but be careful to save as UTF-8 encoded simple text file
  • on the native Word file
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      See above: it's quicker and easier if you use an online captioning platform. And you don't have to delete the automaticly synchronized captions until you're ready to upload the edited version.
  • Upload the new .sbv file “with timing” from the selection option. This is very quick. Click the video and see how it looks. Download the .sbv file again and repeat steps 8 through 12 until you are happy with the video.
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      Again, if you create a page from the YT video on a captioning platform, it's much simpler, as you can do the whole adjusting there without having to download and reupload each time you edit the captions.
  • We received this comment from Claude A: “These instructions concern adding a transcript to a YouTube video to have it timecoded into subtitles by the YouTube automatic synchronization feature.”
    • Claude Almansi
      Claude Almansi on 04 Nov 12
       
      This could be cut: what I meant was that the title for this section could be changed to "Use the YouTube automatic synchronization to make captions from a transcript".
Claude Almansi

"Trapped in Technology - Pilot" with Italian subtitles | Amara - 0 views

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Rob Manuel Internet technology Amara taskblocked Italian subs musiccaptioning Margherita Martignoni 06_08_2012 ghost_task 06_12_2012

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  • Claude Almansi on 13 Jun 12
     
    "Draft only Showing Revision 0, created 06/08/2012 by Margherita Martignoni ." Amara software added this banner, disactivated the Edit subtitles link, but didn't add a task for these subs. Video added to Music Captioning team Margherita Martignoni is not a member of Music Captioning: she therefore cannot have caused the task that caused the banner etc. June 12, 2012: issues persist
  • Claude Almansi on 14 Jun 12
     
    June 14, 2012: issue persists, but then this link didn't get transfered to this Multimedia Accessibility group with the my other links tagged taskblocked, so these subs didn't undergo the manual fix that removed the Amara task blocks in the other subs. I am able to enter the widget version of the subs by main page via Start a new translation in the main page, then choosing Subtitle into Italian (100%) (normal link, not grayed) Directly from video (more work) I was able to change a few things, but though I saved the subs marking them as complete, the banner is still there. I.e. the "lying to the software" workaround indicated in http://support.universalsubtitles.org/categories/6573/forums/28027/topics/4905 only works to prevent the taskblocking, but cannot remove it.
Claude Almansi

Directly - Supporting the Uber Consumer - 0 views

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Coursera directly coursera_directly workflow Uber

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  • Claude Almansi on 09 Apr 15
     
    "January 22, 2015 At a time when increasing customer expectations are placing unprecedented pressure on customer service organizations, on-demand consumer services are accelerating expectations for real-time service" However queries from Global Translator Community volunteers are more complex than asking for a Uber taxi to go from X to Y
Claude Almansi

Web Design References: Color - University of Minnesota Duluth - 0 views

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accessibility accessibilità colors delicious tutorial

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  • Claude Almansi on 23 Mar 09
     
    Lista di link
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Web Design References - University of Minnesota Duluth - 0 views

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Design Duluth Minnesota Web accessibility accessibilità delicious reference resources università usability webdesign

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  • Claude Almansi on 23 Mar 09
     
    Web Design Quote for 7/1/2007 ... This means that the interface design must not only organize the content for easy access, but must incorporate the right combination of technologies and interaction techniques to allow the user to work in their own style.
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