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23 November 2008

A List Apart: Articles: This is How the Web Gets Regulated

The only effective method of increasing the quantity of captioning is actually on the horizon. That method is to bring the force of law to bear to actually require it. Nothing else has worked.

12 October 2008

Time based captioning with YouTube's JavaScript API

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YouTube captioner This is an example how you can use the YouTube JavaScript API to create a captioning interface for YouTube Videos. Start playing the video below and hit the pause button - you will get a form field with the timestamp each time you stop the video. When you hit the "get transcript" button the PHP script on the server will assemble a JSON object of the entered data. Check the accompanying blog post Video captioning made easy with the YouTube JavaScript API for more information.