# Gordon Brown’s Building Britain’s Digital Future announcement with twitter subtitles

I’ve been quietly snaffling twitter timelines using the [subtitle generator](http://hawksey.info/ititle/) I created. The latest one was prompted by Brian Kelly’s post on the [The “Building Britain’s Digital Future” Announcement](http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/03/22/the-building-britains-digital-future-announcement/). In this post he mentioned that twitter was a buzz with the [\#bbdf hashtag](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23bbdf+since%3A2010-03-22+until%3A2010-03-22&rpp=100). Clicking on the image below will take you to a page I created from the subtitle generator. Because [Number 10](http://www.number10.gov.uk/) use a commercial company to host some of their content, using a bespoke flash player, I create a page and embed the video and used the [Javascript SMIL Browser](http://code.google.com/p/smiltext-javascript/).

[![Twitter subtitles for the Digital Future Speech](https://hawksey.info/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/image1.png "Twitter subtitles for the Digital Future Speech")](http://hawksey.info/ititle/digitalfuture.html)

**Update:** As well as being '[Fun, intriguing..](http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/mar/25/technology-links-newsbucket)' Brian Kelly has a nice post on the '[Issues In Crowd-sourced Twitter Captioning of Videos](http://ukwebfocus.wordpress.com/2010/03/23/issues-in-crowd-sourced-twitter-captioning-of-videos/)' (which despite the title I read as a positive use of tweets as they are contextualised with an event). Tony ([who inspired me to look at this area](https://hawksey.info/blog/2010/02/twitter-powered-subtitles-for-bbc-iplayer/)) and I are both keen to take some of the twitter captioning ideas forward so if any developers or funders want to get involved we'd like to hear from you.

**Update:** If you want to see how I combined Gordon Brown's speech and tweets [here is the 'making of' video](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn1qYssOwVo)

**Update:** Number 10 have put Gordon Brown's speech on YouTube which makes embeding subtitles a lot easier. [Click here to see the same example but using the YouTube clip](http://hawksey.info/ititle/digitalfuture-youtube.html)