The Art of Subtitling

October 4, 2012, 03:39 PM

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100008723963904445...

The director Jean-Luc Godard once jested that his film "Notre Musique" "should be subtitled into the American English of a Pakistani cab driver." With the rise of crowd-sourced subtitling platforms such as Amara, which uses volunteers to collaborate on translations of online videos into numerous languages, such hyperspecific captioning no longer sounds like a joke. Amara volunteers now mainly provide subtitles for videos of political speeches and events, but Netflix is in the early stages...