Friday, February 8, 2013

SLS - How music videos are triggering a literacy boom

http://theopinionmag.com/the-chitrahaar-chamatkaar/

You don’t always need fancy technology to make a difference

Same Language Subtitling – or ‘SLS’ – is simply the idea of subtitling audio-visual content in the ‘same’ language as the audio. What you hear is what you read.

The idea of SLS builds on some key observations:

  • Indians have a lifelong passion for Bollywood film songs
  • Bollywood produces a 1000 films, and therefore, 5000 film songs a year in a variety of languages
  • 740 million people already watch television where Bollywood content dominates. 

SLS was first implemented on Gujarat state TV in 1999. That successful pilot led to another ongoing pilot on a nationally telecast Hindi film song programme, from 2002 to the present.

Call it karaoke on Bollywood for mass reading


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