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Crowd-Source Translation Software For Free Content?
yahyamf writes "I have a lot of free educational content in the form of audio lectures and text, which I'd like to translate into as many languages as possible. I would also want to transcribe the audio and create audiobooks from the text. There are already several volunteers willing to contribute, but I need some web based software to manage all the work. Facebook is already doing something like this, but it is only for their content. I've also looked at Damned Lies, which is part of the Gnome project, but it doesn't seem to handle audio. Are there any other open source translation projects out there that I can customize and build upon?"
Are they your lectures and who owns the copyright on the lectures? Does the university or do you? Since your work product was for hire . . .
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
You silly, this is where that "social engineering" comes into play.
You convince all these people they want to help you for free, then you sell the fruits of their labor for money.
Some see crowd sourcing as communist, but it's actually quite the opposite. It's capitalism in hyperdrive: you put up a little bit of capital, organize a whole bunch of ultra-cheap willing (so technically non-slave) labor, and you profit more from the higher margin. Those paid laborers can just keep working for those stupid enough to keep paying them.