by Shaker Xtinas
Hi!
I have mild hearing issues, and I can't watch videos at work, so I nearly always prefer a transcript of a video or a podcast. I really appreciate the bloggers who provide transcripts, and I wanted to find a way to support them and also encourage more bloggers to make their multi-media posts more accessible. So what to do?
Right! Make a wiki!
TexTube, for all your media-transcription needs!
Also, make more prepositional phrases in sentences. Goodness, X.
Following are a couple of videos that have already been transcribed, so that you can have an example of what this sort of thing would be like:
* http://textube.wikia.com/wiki/JoinMe.mov
* http://textube.wikia.com/wiki/Women_of_CPAC_2010
This would be the new process for writing an en-media-d post, in my idealised future:
- Write blog post.
- Embed video.
- Search for video on TexTube.
- Find it, and link to the transcript below the video.
If you don't find the transcript on the site, no problem! You just add the transcript to the wiki, instead of just to your blog post, so that people in the future can just link to it. Yay, community-driven repository!
To get started, or just to review what I'm looking for, check out the Guidelines page. I'm editing various links now, so that the New Media template shows as default text whenever you go to add a new page, just to save yall some typing.
Contribute today! Whee!
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