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 Call for Interest in taking over the running of the French FUN-MOOC platform
The French Ministry of Education has published a Call for Interest in taking over the running of the national FUN-MOOC platform, less than a year after the launch of the France Université Numérique programme... read more
 The EMMA consortium meets in Naples to prepare platform launch
The EMMA consortium, working on the deployment of EMMA, has gathered at the University of Naples Federico II, to discuss the last design issues of the platform before preparing the launch of the first 10 MOOCs...read more
 Working Committee to explore collaboration amongst European MOOC related projects
Several European MOOC initiatives and projects have been set up in the last year, most of them funded by the European Commission under different programmes. As there are a lot of common interests amongst these projects...read more
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One of the most appealing services of the EMMA platform is the possibility of having your course materials automatically translated into other European languages opening up your student community. In the case of audiovisual materials, such as videos, subtitles are automatically generated in multiple languages. At the current state of the project, transcription systems that generate subtitles from videos in English, Spanish, Italian, Dutch and Portuguese have been developed. Translation systems have also been deployed for the following translation pairs: from Italian, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese into English, from Spanish into English and Catalan. The translation systems will be employed to translate both, subtitles and textual content of MOOCs in the original language. The Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) technology behind the EMMA transcription systems have been developed at the European project transLectures (
