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OOONA Partners With Captionmax On Mobile App Launch

Longtime Captionmax partner OOONA has launched a mobile app for their platform, offering a fully remote experience to their global user base. This new app allows translators and project managers to access their work remotely. “Even before COVID, our global…

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5 Ways Human Input is Valuable in Localizing Content

At Captionmax, we believe that good, quality translation is an art. Translation is not science or math; you can’t simply replace one word in a language for the other in the destination tongue. Machine translation can be a helpful tool…

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Influencing With Accessibility

Influencing With Accessibility The explosion of social media has created many things beyond connections between people. Social media has created its own subculture and ecosystem. One of the coolest ways it has influenced our daily lives is, well, influence. The…

Captionmax Enters the Entertainment Globalization Association

Captionmax is excited to be a new member and supporter of theEntertainment Globalization Association (EGA)! The Entertainment Globalization Association is committed to ongoing research and study to better understand how the entertainment industry best meets the complex demands of a global…

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Automated Speech Recognition and Translation Engines

Since the dawn of media accessibility, the captions you’ve come to know and love have all been expertly crafted by professional captioners. Between a college education in their language of choice and years of additional training and practice, captioners bring…

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Dubbing Primer and Checklist

Content localization can be complicated; there are several methods to localize your content and a cornucopia of different elements to consider for your project’s scope. It’s very easy to get overwhelmed and feel intimidated by the possibilities. That’s why we’ve put together this handy primer on voice-over and dubbing!…

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Election 2020: Voting Accessibility and Accommodations

In what has already been a year no one will ever forget, 2020 isn’t letting up. With the presidential election right around the corner, how do accessibility practices come into play at the polls or in early voting from home? Let’s take a look.…

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