dotSUB video translation service – freaking awesome! Closed Captioning 2.0

Alright, so while working on the Amanda video blog story yesterday, I checked out RocketBoom to see the latest episode. Joanne, the host of RocketBoom, pointed out a service they are using called dotSUB. The basic idea with dotSUB is that you upload a video and then others can provide text translations in any language. Absolutely one of most innovative applications I have reviewed in a long time.

The site itself appears to still be in a buildout stage as there are many pages void of content. I think this service could gain market share in terms of scale and users if it had a stronger design and some social networking features.

Here is Joanne’s post in all of the lanaguages that people have translated so far:

• Chinese
• Croatian
• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Slovak
• Swedish