SubTube

21/11/2016

The technology is there - YouTube have been doing it perfectly for years - the real reason you can't watch videos with subtitles on your phone is because no one did them... Send them to us

07/05/2015

The UK's media regulator, Ofcom, said it would crack down on gaffes such as asking for 'a moment's violence' during the Queen Mother's funeral. So we asked you to send in any subtitling errors you have spotted. Here is a selection of the best (or worst)

26/10/2013

Another fail - this time, ironically, as Brand is calling for a revolution...

26/10/2013

Never worry again about missing out on the televised revolution:

http://subtube.org/latest/newsnight-paxman-brand-subtitles/

BBC Newsnight's Paxman-Brand face-off finally gets subtitles and we get to read what the all the fuss was about.

12/10/2013

From the BBC YouTube channel (Yes the same BBC that is so proud of it's subtitles provision) - a program about Asteroid Armageddon: of the biggest threats to the existence of the human race..."

08/08/2013

Help us help avaaz help others...

http://www.avaaz.org/en/petition/Subtitles_for_Avaaz_Videos/?copy

Millions of people around the world are unable to understand the videos on Avaaz.org YouTube channel. Not because they speak a different language, nor because their government has censored Avaaz or YouTube - but because it seems that Avaaz.org doesn't have the resources. It is not a question of mone...

07/08/2013

Modern technology fail...

Profoundly deaf since birth, Lisa Goldstein thought Google Glass would change her life. Turns out, it's just one really expensive, complicated gadget.

07/08/2013

Dangers of auto-generated subtitles: This is a shot of a video from International Business Times - a review of Google Glasses. Later on at 0.57, "doesn't fold up" becomes "doesn't fall the f**k"

07/08/2013

It's a bit of a gray area: fan-subbing video content that everyone's going to be watching illegally... Subtitles Copyright Law.

18/07/2013

The technology is there - the YouTube app has been out for years - yet even Google's Chrome 28 won't display subtitles unless you ask very nicely.

A post about the current state of watching videos with subtitles online. Where are all the closed captions mobile browsers and accessibility that we need?

07/07/2013

http://subtube.org/latest/racism-in-subtitles/

Casual racism in subtitles