Amara and cielo24 Partner to Offer Caption and Subtitle Solution for Online Education: Partnership launches One Click to Caption solution; Provides high quality, fast, and low cost method to caption online media.
Santa Barbara, Calif., July 16, 2013 – Amara, a leading volunteer crowd-based subtitle platform, and cielo24, Inc., a leader in online searchable captioning, announced a partnership to launch One Click to Caption (1C2C), a searchable caption solution for online education and is available on the Kaltura Exchange.
1C2C eliminates common barriers to gaining captions by providing fast, high quality, low cost pricing with no set up fees or commitments. 1C2C offers on demand searchable captions in ten (10) native languages, crowd management, integration with popular video platforms, and Amara’s award winning drag and drop caption editor for final editing.
1C2C overcomes the accessibility challenges educators face to comply with equal access requirements for the hearing impaired and second language learners. ?Video is now a critical part of the educational experience and Kaltura is delighted to incorporate 1C2C into Kaltura’s wide range of market-leading education video solutions,? said Ron Yekutiel, Kaltura Chairman and CEO.
“As universities race to bring their courses online, demand for captions is skyrocketing,” said Nicholas Reville, Executive Director of Amara. “1C2C dramatically reduces the costs involved in captioning, giving more students access. We are proud to partner with cielo24 in our efforts of making educational content accessible around the world.”
Coursera, lynda.com, Stanford, University of California system and over 100 leading educational institutions have been utilizing 1C2C over the past year to caption and subtitle more than ten thousand online videos. The service is immediately available.
About cielo24
cielo24, Inc. delivers searchable captions for large media platform partners in the online education, enterprise, news and entertainment markets. The cielo24 platform creates high quality, searchable data from unstructured media including indexes, transcripts and captions. cielo24 provides highly integrated, customized, scalable solutions at high quality, low cost and speed. cielo24 focuses on professional Internet media helping clients enhance ROI for online media by extending reach, content discovery and equal access compliance. For more information, please visit www.cielo24.com/education.
About Amara
Amara is an open source, non-profit project, whose mission is to provide tools to increase the accessibility of online content. Amara gives individuals, communities, and larger organizations the power to overcome accessibility and language barriers for online video. The tools are free and open source and make the work of subtitling and translating video simpler, more appealing, and, most of all, more collaborative. For more information, please visit www.amara.org.