Ready to start making more content accessible through subtitling and captioning? Great! Here is how to find the team for the organization you want to contribute to.
Find a team
You can search for a publicly visible Amara team to join on the Amara Team Workspace.
Or you can check out our most popular publicly visible Amara teams!
Note: Publicly visible Amara teams are volunteer teams.
Join a team
The process for joining a team depends on the team's admission settings:
Open Admission: Anyone can join.
Click the Join Team button on that team’s page.
Application Admission: Some teams require you to apply and be approved by a team Admin.
Visit the team page and click the Apply to Join button.
Invitation Admission: Some teams allow people to join by invitation only. A current team member must invite you to the team.
If the team is publicly visible, you can click the Members tab on the team page, search for a team member with the Admin role, and ask to be invited to the team.
Leave a team
To leave a team you are contributing to:
Go to Team Workspace from the Amara home page.
Scroll down to the section Teams you're contributing to.
Select Leave Team link in the lower left corner of the box with the team info.
Start Subtitles in an Amara Team
Account: Set the Languages you can create captions and translations for
To ensure that available transcription and translation assignments display on a team, be sure to set the languages you want to create captions and translations for on your Amara User Account page.
Select your username in the top right-hand corner of the Amara.org home pages.
Select the Account item from the drop-down menu.
Select Edit next to Languages and add the languages you want to create captions for.
Read more about your Amara user account in the Manage Your Amara User Account article.
Take on a Transcription or Translation Assignment
Search for and take on assignments from the team Dashboard.
Search for and take on assignments from the team Videos page.
Take on an Assignment from the team Dashboard
Go to the team Dashboard.
To create subtitles or translations, do one of the following:
Either click on the Transcribe button (to create subtitles) or Translate button (to create translations) under the video for languages you are proficient in.
Or click on the link Find more videos that need subtitling.
You can filter on the Videos page for Needs Subtitles and select the language you want to create subtitles or translations in.
You can view your recent subtitles in the Assignments History section of the Dashboard.
Take on an Assignment from the team’s Videos page
On the team’s Videos page, filter, sort, or search by various filters to find your next subtitling opportunity.
You can filter team videos by:
Video language;
Subtitle languages needed;
Subtitle languages completed;
Project that the video belongs to;
Duration of the video.
You can sort team videos by:
Date video added to team;
Title of video;
Number of completed subtitle languages.
Click on the video title to go to the video page and view a list of all subtitles created for that video.
Click the Activity tab underneath the video to see the entire history of the activity for the subtitles.
Subtitle Page
From the subtitle page, you can view the status of your subtitles, edit subtitles, compare revisions, or follow subtitles for updates when changes are made.
Click on the title of a video.
Click on a subtitle set to open the subtitle page.
Click on a subtitle language to view more information about that set of subtitles.
From the subtitle page you can:
Edit subtitles and view status (complete, review, etc.);
Note that you must have permission to edit subtitles to see the Edit Subtitles button below the video. You may instead see an Embed button if you do not have edit permissions.
Compare two revisions of subtitles;
Follow edits to this set of subtitles;
View subtitle information and activity;
View who created each revision.
Contact team members
On the team’s Members page you can:
Find a specific member of the team;
Click on a team member’s name to view their team profile;
Send a message to ask for help, give advice, or get to know your team members!
If you have any questions or suggestions, please share your feedback!
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Thank you for your contributions to support an inclusive and accessible media ecosystem!