TED Talks Translations
TED, which stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design, started out in 1984 and has since then widened the focus even further and is today seen as a global community of thinkers and visionaries that try to get a deeper understanding of the world and share their findings with others interested in the very same thing.
TED Talks was created to give interested users from all over the world the opportunity to watch these demonstrations online. While it is surely special to attend a TED conference, space is limited and the online archive offers several advantages include availability of all recordings at all time.
Up until recently all speeches were only available in the English language which may have kept users from other parts of the world from watching the show, especially if they don't understand English at all or only rudimentary.
This has recently changed with Ted Talks Translations which is a community driven translation project. The TED Open Translation project is home to 1048 translators who translate TED Talks into 42 different languages. The main page offers information about the current state of translations.
TED Talks Translations
The most popular languages are Spanish, German, Italian, Hebrew and Portuguese. It is possible to filter TED Talks by language which is without doubt the most important feature as you can filter by language that you understand.
Translations are provided as subtitles and transcripts. Each video on the TED website has a pulldown menu which supports adding subtitles to the video.
The translations are interesting to users who have a hard time understanding spoken English. It makes the talks more accessible and easier to understand. Some talks worth viewing:
Hans Rosling on HIV: New facts and stunning data visuals
Matthew Child: 9 life lessons from rock climbing
David Pogue on cool phone tricks
Bill Gates unplugged
Update: The number of individual translators, languages and translations has gone way up ever since we have published the article back in 2009. More than 16,000 translators have created over 57,000 translations to 104 supported languages.
A new good entry point is the new TED browser that you can make use of. Here you can filter by language among other things easily, so that only talks available in that language are returned to you.
Update 2: As of July 2017, Ted Talks have been translated into 115 languages by more than 27000 translators.
VSDC v Camstudio what is your call Martin?
I really like VSDC right now, it works just fine. Camstudio is excellent too, but my vote goes to the newcomer for now.
I’ve been pleased with the Firefox add-on, Video DownloadHelper. I haven’t had it not record anything, but then I haven’t used it for anything but FLV files. Records as mpeg4, which can be burned to DVD and played in a standard DVD player.
@interestedBystander: use it too but it’s useless for the mp2t format used by pbs frontline. GOM player does play the first few seconds captured by download helper but nothing else after that. download helper probably stops after the first packet and the stream starts to buffer as rickxs mentioned. have notified download helper peeps. still looking for a way to do this. haven’t found anything yet in the forums i’ve visited.
cheers!
just 1 problem with this method Martin ,its when the stream buffers -you capture it !
Example: Try to get ch4OD [uk] who use RTMPE — I don’t think there is a solution for this to download to the PC , I live outside the UK & use Mediahint & watch it though another stream other than CH4 , they don’t even let you buffer ahead ,you click pause & it stops any data build up,so buffering is prevalent enough to be unwatchable
Been using camtasia for awhile now and works just good for me but it is always good to have options though.. nice find.
Nhick
Nice software !! But I will prefer camstudio!!
You might try acethinker screen grabber, free as camstudio. I always use it to capture stream video. It worked pretty well all the time.
How about recording a live streaming video when viewed in full screen mode? This article has no mention for that mode.
It supports full screen as well, but I have not tested it in games or apps that do not display window borders.
How about recording a stream from say, Hulu, or Netflix, or a studio such as ABC, or Fox? Can these be recorded as well?
I’m not aware of any limits.
”How about recording a stream from say, Hulu, or Netflix, or a studio such as ABC, or Fox? Can these be recorded as well?” Karl
if you can play it — it will record it ,your problem will be your IP address
ie.what they allow to view from other countries
Looks nice. But I find their website a little, well, suspicious. I have no strong basis for that. But there are no names of the people involved. Not even where they are located. No userforum. They have what looks to be pretty advanced products for free. How is that possible economically?
Be wary. Your instinct is correct. The file I tried to download for camstuido was actually a disguised artemis trojan virus. I have flagged this site as unsafe and urge you to do the same.
For me everytime I try it gives a “statsfile not found” error
Is there a way to record live streaming video and have it start and stop (on a timer) during a certain time of day when I am not at my computer?
I went to the link you have here for camstudio and attempted to download the free version 2.7 and it was actually a disguised trojan virus that I downloaded, it was labelled as camstudio.exe however McAfee identified it as Artemis trojan malware/spyware. Therefore I assume the site is bunk and I will block it and identify your site as unsafe
Hi Erin, McAfee is wrong. CamStudio is not a trojan but ships with something that is called Install Core which integrates third-party offers into installers.
https://www.sophos.com/en-us/threat-center/threat-analyses/adware-and-puas/Install%20Core/detailed-analysis.aspx
Do you also identify Google, or whichever service you are using to search, as unsafe if they link to the site?
https://www.google.com/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=iw4wV7bWMuba8Afo4rzIBA&gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=camstudio
Audio does not record – only option is microphone – really dumb!
If i download and use Camtudio: My ehm… laptop crashes…. :(
thats good service i’ish all of you to join it
I’ve just install the software and no problem recording but the audio does not record any solution to get round this issue.
no, all of these screen recorders have the same problem, they don’t record audio. they just don’t tell you that beforehand.
This program does not work at all. No matter what I do, it tells me it can’t record because the settings are wrong. I’ve tried with the default, I’ve tried adjusting settings, nothing works. It simply will not record. On top of that, the audio is set by default to “do not record audio” and there is NO alternative. Piece of junk program.
That is strange. I just checked again and the program works fine on my system. Have you tried updating video card drivers?
Thanks, VSDC Free Screen Recorder works well for me. BTW, I find the video downloader AnyVid video downloader is capable of downloading streaming videos from websites. It saves time but it could not record video chat.
I have tried several solutions to record streaming videos but there are three solutions which worked for me every time. Applications like camstudio and ScreenRec are the right option to go with when it comes to recording streaming videos. In order to record streaming videos ScreenRec also provides cloud storage to access recorded videos anytime you want.