On March 30, 2017, YouTube announced in a blog entry that it had expanded the CC tool to allow translations, not only for subtitles and closed captions but also for video titles and descriptions. Two of YouTube’s partners for the pilot were media company VICE and conference host TED.Ī rich online conference which brings together our research and network of industry leaders. Hence the appeal of community contributions for millions of YouTubers and amateur vloggers. It is not like translating a movie”―LatinlinguaĪccording to YouTube, two-thirds of the audience watch time of the average content creator comes from outside the home country. “The thing with YouTube is that many creators are recording their lives or other informational settings and that can be very challenging. “But we believe our customers look for professional services instead of the community contributions to guarantee the quality of the transcripts and translations.” It is nice that their (content creators’) own followers can give them the possibility to spread their content worldwide,” Latinlingua added. “Community contributions are an amazing tool and we are not trying to compete with that. So, yes, we are expecting the volume to grow even more in the next months, and we’ll be working to promote that on our end,” Latinlingua, an LSP based in Argentina, said in an e-mail interview.

Not only do we now have recurring customers, but many creators are also becoming more familiar with the marketplace tool.

“In March, we received almost twice the average amount of requests from the previous three months.

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