The Miro open subtitles project just got funded at kickstarter.
The promise is an open source of subtitles for video. Now the subtitles won’t be restricted to the people who made the video. They are anticipating use for the hearing impaired and for translations. Why am I excited?
The project is also designed to make this decentralized, so that it can be implemented by other video players, and so that users can subscribe to multiple sites of subtitles. That’s the interesting bit!
I’m seeing subtitles as commentary, subtitles with contrasting dialogue, snarky notes about continuity issues and product placement, or political connections…Â Imagine the amazing ShiftSpace web experience 1, or Google’s Sidewiki, but for video.
It’s just cream that the project was funded by tiny donations from lots of strangers 2.