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Amara

Amara (formerly Universal Subtitles or unisubs) 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...

Cost / License

  • Freemium (Subscription)
  • Proprietary

Platforms

  • Online
  • Vagrant
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Features

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  1.  Subtitle Translation
  2.  Embeddable

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  • translation-service
  • subtitle-creator
  • collective-intelligence

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Amara information

  • Developed by

    US flagParticipatory Culture Foundation

  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Freemium product.

  • Pricing

    Subscription ranging between $24 and $120 per month + free version with limited functionality.

  • Alternatives

    52 alternatives listed

  • Supported Languages

    • English

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Our users have written 1 comments and reviews about Amara, and it has gotten 13 likes

Amara was added to AlternativeTo by Fodi69 on and this page was last updated . Amara is sometimes referred to as Universal Subtitles, unisubs. 

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msori
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Amara is not open source. It cannot be downloaded anywhere and the source code is proprietary.

FOSSAltsAreGreat

It used to be open source but they then got greedy: https://blog.amara.org/2020/01/13/why-we-are-closing-amaras-source-code/

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What is Amara?

Amara (formerly Universal Subtitles or unisubs) 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.

The benefits of captioning and subtitling are immense:

  1. Captions make videos accessible for viewers who are deaf or hard of hearing.
  2. Translations make it possible for all of us to watch video in languages that we don't speak.
  3. Video creators get: better SEO, more views, access to a far bigger (potentially multilingual and global) audience, accessibility for deaf and hard of hearing viewers, and more.

Amara is composed of three main parts:

  1. A subtitle creation and viewing tool (aka the widget)
  2. A collaborative subtitling website
  3. An open protocol for subtitle search/delivery

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