Because you asked: TED’s embeddable video player now has subtitles built right into the player. So wherever you’ve embedded a TEDTalk, you can now see English subtitles and any languages into which the talk has been translated. Check out the effect below:
(You may need to refresh your browser once, to see the new embed player.)
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Aaron Irvine commented on Feb 14 2010
I tried the embedded player on my site, but the subtitles didn’t start by default so the user (if they understood English) would inconveniently have to click on the subtitles option. I suggest the embed code should include the subtitling language to play, and also if possible please localize the player itself (“TED Ideas worth spreading” “View subtitles” “Share”).
As a workaround, I embedded the dotsub source directly.
bob oconnor commented on Jun 13 2009
Warum gibt es keine Untertitel in Deutsch?
Nail Lansang commented on Jun 10 2009
wow, its a nice video.
Ronald Sherman commented on Jun 10 2009
This is going to look great on my page. Thanks for making the requested changes.
Ron
Nenad Maljkovi? commented on Jun 10 2009
Great! :)
Now please apply this player here http://www.ted.com/talks/top10
and here http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/129