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04/20/2020

Why Translation is Vital to Public Health | K International

"Why Translation is vital to public health"

To ensure full comprehension of risks and safety practises, protect the most vulnerable, and maintain trust in social services, amongst other things!

Learn more in this great blog post from K-International.

#translation #publichealth

Public health campaigns are like a more benign form of advertising- instead of convincing the public to buy products, you’re trying to persuade them to change their habits. But when lives are on the line, transparent, credible communication is more critical than ever. If your audience speaks more ...

04/09/2020

Whisper it — TV subtitles are gaining a new audience

“It’s gone mainstream, and when I started in this business, I would never have imagined this”

#subtitles #gonemainstream #everyonelovessubtitles #sopranos

A few nights ago Peter Bregman was watching a show with his daughter and attempted to change a setting on the television to get rid of the subtitles.“She said ‘don’t’,” said Mr Bregman, who lives in

02/11/2020

Translation, wings that helped 'Parasite' soar free and high

“Once you overcome the 1-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films,” Director Bong said at the Oscars accepting the Best Picture award. https://bit.ly/2UI2PtG

As director Bong Joon-ho captivated the audience abroad with his dark satire “Parasite”, back home the name Darcy Paquet made headlines in local media outlets.

01/15/2020

As Bong-joon Ho says... there are so many amazing films out there, is a one-inch barrier of subtitles really going to hold you back?!

#subtitles #parasite #bongjoonho #cinema

01/07/2020

Language - BBC News

Just how far will your phone app take you in language learning? https://bbc.in/2T520Kv

All the latest news about Language from the BBC

12/02/2019

Mobile Film Festival ACT NOW on climate change

The prize award ceremony is tomorrow. Please take a few minutes to view the finalists! https://www.mobilefilmfestival.com

50 films x 1 minute 46 000€ de bourses à remporter

11/18/2019

Mobile Film Festival

Dotsub is a proud partner of the Mobile Film Festival “ACT NOW on climate change”! Celebrate the Grand Opening from November 14th till November 30th 2019! View the finalist 50 films from 24 countries and share your comments! #MFF https://bit.ly/2XqpaLr

1mobile 1minute 1film 1theme #ACTNOW on climate change
Gagnez 46 000 € de bourses Youtube Creators for Change pour réaliser votre film !

11/07/2019

LocWorld41 - Silicon Valley 2019

Stop by booth #107 at #LocWorld41 to see Dotsub’s Executive Decision Toolkit (our raffle item). We look forward to seeing you there!

"Go Global, Be Global" LocWorld41 Silicon Valley. November 6-8, 2019 registration for Locworld41 today! Secure your Locworld41 Exhibition space You’ve heard the advice: Go Global! Study foreign (or international) markets to determine where you are going to focus. Analyze your cost of entry. Calcul...

11/06/2019

2020-2021 Board Candidate: Dave Bryant

The elections for board membership at GALA are underway and we would like you vote for Dave Bryant, Dotsub's President. As a technologist, relatively new to the language industry, he tends to see things in a different way. And what he sees are opportunities to make GALA an even bigger force in our marketplace.

See why he thinks that in more detail here. And if you are at LocWorld in San Jose, come to the Dotsub booth (#107) and have a chat.

https://www.facebook.com/pg/GALAGlobal/

Dave Bryant Dotsub President & COO Candidate Background Dave Bryant is Dotsub’s COO and the Product Owner of Dotsub V3. During his career, he has spent time in sales, software development, and product management in high-tech before moving into executive management. Dave helped build the growing te...

11/05/2019

LocWorld41 - Silicon Valley 2019

LocWorld41 - Silicon Valley 2019

"Go Global, Be Global" LocWorld41 Silicon Valley. November 6-8, 2019 registration for Locworld41 today! Secure your Locworld41 Exhibition space You’ve heard the advice: Go Global! Study foreign (or international) markets to determine where you are going to focus. Analyze your cost of entry. Calcul...

11/05/2019

LocWorld41 - Silicon Valley 2019

We’re looking forward to #LocWorld41 Be sure to plan and visit us at Booth 107 - let us show you our VTMS product - especially important to LSPs and other localization departments. http://locworld.com/locWorld41

"Go Global, Be Global" LocWorld41 Silicon Valley. November 6-8, 2019 registration for Locworld41 today! Secure your Locworld41 Exhibition space You’ve heard the advice: Go Global! Study foreign (or international) markets to determine where you are going to focus. Analyze your cost of entry. Calcul...

10/01/2019

Translators without Borders scales program to develop machine translation for marginalized languages - Translators without Borders

In this fertile week for translation, with both European Day of Languages and International Translation Day in the last few days, we would love to give a shout-out to one of the most interesting projects in the language world today.

Gamayun, from Translators without Borders, is a language equality initiative using advanced technology to improve two-way communication in marginalized languages.

This aim ties in very nicely with UNESCO's 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages, working to raise awareness of the worlds 2680 endangered languages and support teaching and revival efforts.

Hats off to these and all the other language projects around the world, working to break down barriers to communication!

#translation #indigenouslanguages #endangeredlanguages

Cisco funding increases focus on developing language technology to improve two-way communication DANBURY, Conn., USA – 26 April, 2019. Translators without Borders (TWB) has received funding from the Cisco Foundation, the corporate social responsibility partner of the global technology leader, to s...

09/23/2019

The Joys of Subtitling

"Subtitling is a sort of balancing act between timing, meaning, phrasing and understanding."

A lovely ode to the joys of subtitling from Zingword

#subtitles #translation

Zingword is a way for translators to feature themselves, launching soon. Potential clients can search for translators who specialize in…

09/16/2019

Framingham Artists Guild Inc - Google Search

Framingham Artists Guild Inc - Google Search

09/11/2019

Netflix Swahili Subtitles Leave Netizens Rolling in Laughter

More #swahili news... but not the kind we'd hope!

#Translation #artnotscience #skill

Some of the translations were simply ridiculous as netizens took it upon themselves to point out the errors as they...

08/15/2019

Beyoncé in Kiswahili - Language Magazine

A love letter to Africa! https://bit.ly/30gLCqU

Beyoncé has released a song featuring lyrics in Kiswahili, one of Africa’s more widely spoken languages. The song, “Spirit,” is featured on the Lion King album produced by the star, which is the soundtrack to Disney’s new version of the classic movie The Lion King. The song’s intro featur...

08/13/2019

How "Carpe Diem" Got Lost in Translation | JSTOR Daily

A great piece from JSTOR on why translating metaphors can be such a minefield - and what metaphors are really saying about our values from culture to culture.

#translation #language #carpediem

"Carpe Diem" doesn't actually mean "seize the day." The fact that we understand it that way suggests we are more traditional than we like to admit.

08/02/2019

Dotsub is proud to be a gold sponsor of CLINT Translation Industry Conference in Latin America! It will will take place at Universidad Siglo 21 on September 14-15, 2019. https://www.translatedinargentina.com/clint/about-us/

07/22/2019

Lights, camera, caption! Why subtitles are no longer just for the hard of hearing

"...it’s not just deaf people who rely on subtitles in 2019. What was once a question of accessibility and a mainstay of foreign-language broadcasts is becoming an inescapable part of visual media."

#subtitles #captions #accessibility

An enormous number of people with unimpaired hearing are choosing to watch with words. Why? And is it time captions became the norm?

07/05/2019

How Do You Say ‘The New York Times’ in Spanish?

A lovely article discussing translation at The New York Times. Finding linguistic common ground is a creative and human process.

#translation

To translate 50 news articles a week, NYT en Español looks for the common ground in a language spoken by 500 million people in many different ways.

06/17/2019

Media for All 8 - Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies

Dotsub's Dave Bryant is at Media For All in Stockholm. He will be on the MESA panel at 10 on Tuesday. https://bit.ly/2Xj8Oqu

8th Media for All conference – Complex Understandings on June 17–19, 2019.

06/17/2019

Media for All 8 - Institute for Interpreting and Translation Studies

Dotsub's Dave Bryant is at Media For All in Stockholm! He will be on the MESA panel at 10 on Tuesday. https://bit.ly/2Xj8Oqu

8th Media for All conference – Complex Understandings on June 17–19, 2019.

06/07/2019

The Glossary of Happiness

"Lomas, who speaks some French and Mandarin, acknowledges that it can be tricky to isolate words from their cultural context. But he noted that a few of the entries in his lexicon, such as nirvāna (Sanskrit) and bon vivant (French), are already commonly used by English speakers. Perhaps some of the rest will eventually be adopted, too, filling the gaps in our vocabularies and helping us give names to newly felt emotions, or to those that are familiar but difficult to articulate."

An enjoyable read from The New Yorker on that ever-fascinating idea of 'untranslatable' words.
From May 2016.

Happy weekend, language fans!

#translation or #untranslatable

Could understanding other cultures’ concepts of joy and well-being help us reshape our own?

05/20/2019

Say what? Why film translators are in a war of words over subtitles

"...too many film-makers look on subtitling as an afterthought, an attitude the AVTE is seeking to correct. As Buchanan points out, “Subtitles are the conduit allowing you to communicate your film’s ideas around the globe. Bad subtitles can ruin millions of dollars’ worth of hard work. A film-maker wouldn’t outsource their colour correction or audio mix and just think: ‘I’ll leave them to it, I’m sure it’ll be fine.’ They would want to see it, hear it, get a second opinion, make sure everybody is on the same page. It should be the same with subtitles.”"

Well, quite.

#subtitles #filmmaking #roma #artoftranslation #translation

Clumsy and insensitive translations can ruin the enjoyment of a foreign-language film. Don’t blame us, say the subtitlers pressing film-makers for more appreciation of their art

04/24/2019

Facebook's Terrible Automatic Video Captions Are No Laughing Matter

"The rise of the high-bandwidth web brought with it an ocean of video content, especially user-generated content uploaded to social media.

For those with different hearing abilities, the overwhelming majority of this vast ocean is entirely inaccessible. Few users spend the time to go back retroactively and type up timecoded captioning for their video masterpieces."

Accessibility is important to us at Dotsub, which is why we work with qualified human transcribers, to create accurate timecoded captions in many languages for as much video as possible. The gap between hype and reality has meant many AI technologies don't quite live up to what they promise - yet. But we're hoping Facebook's technologies will continue to improve, to ensure more and more video is accessible to all.

#captions #hardofhearing #accessibility #facebook #AI #closedcaptions

The difference between Facebook and YouTube's automatic closed captioning of a recent NASA video reminds us that AI done right can be spectacular, but that much of the AI landscape is failed hype. Unfortunately, for those with differing hearing abilities, comedic captions are no laughing matter.

04/12/2019

The BBC subtitles had a complete meltdown trying to translate Emmanuel Macron

Happy Friday to everyone except the BBC subtitlers who took this incredible shortcut when subtitling the French president.

#subtitlefail #BBC #Macron

News about Brexit is seemingly breaking the entirety of Great Britain, none more so than the people trying to cover it. Irish prime minister Leo Varadkar was visiting Paris to meet French president Emmanuel Macron because of the Brexit situation the UK has blindly wandered in to. Their meeting was b...

03/20/2019

We're thrilled to be exhibiting at #GALAMunich next week! Deutschland, hier kommen wir 🇩🇪😎🇩🇪

#l10n #i18n #subtitles

03/05/2019

#oops #subtitlefail #subtitles

01/16/2019

’Ignorant and offensive!' The subtext of subtitles

Did you watch the brilliant Roma by Alfonso Cuaron - and did you use subtitles? Where should the line be drawn when it comes to subtitling?

We're (obviously) advocates of subtitling to aid comprehension, be that for foreign languages, dialects or just a noisy background. However, being sensitive to when subtitles are actually needed is key.

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-46822379 #subtitles #roma #alfonsocuaron

Director Alfonso Cuarón is furious about his latest film being subtitled. Why is it such a minefield?

12/31/2018

Wishing all our friends, followers and customers a great end to the year and a wonderful 2019. Cheers!!

12/17/2018

The art of translation, Richard Pine | Kathimerini

"Translation is more than ever essential, and more than ever vulnerable, in a world deluged by meaningless media and globalization. Whether in politics, literature, film or the kitchen, it is more than ever necessary to ensure that the Greek narrative reaches into other worlds, and safely."

Some nice words about translation by author and critic Richard Pine.

How clever of the Romans to have pushed “translation” into pole position in our vocabulary, superseding the Greek “metaphrasi.” So much so that few today recognize “metaphor” as the equivalent of “translation,” the carrying across of meaning from one language, one mind-set, one cultu...

12/04/2018

Why foreign language music is now a hit

Latin Stars and K-pop going global: https://bbc.in/2EbnE9t

Latin music and K-pop are riding high in the UK charts - so why are Brits finally embracing songs in other languages?

11/29/2018

The Forum - Machine Translation: The End of the Human Translator? - BBC Sounds

Is Machine Translation the end of the human translator? Great overview of the state of the technology in a podcast. https://bbc.in/2PajDmr

Will new technology mean the end of the human translator?

11/21/2018

Arts & Ideas - The rise of translation and the death of foreign language learning - BBC Sounds

A wonderful chat between writers working in translation, on the 'monoglot condition', mother tongues, and language learning and teaching.

BBC Arundhati Roy Meena Kandasamy Preti Taneja

Catch up on your favourite BBC radio show from your favourite DJ right here, whenever you like. Listen without limits with BBC Sounds.

11/02/2018

Anthea Bell, translator who made Asterix an English-language Gaul, remembered

“Translation is not, by its very nature, a high-profile craft. If you have spun your illusion successfully, then you are quite rightly invisible.”

Remembering Anthea Bell, translator of work as varied as the comic Asterix, to WG Sebald.

Her award-winning renderings of works by Freud, Kafka and WG Sebald in English were capped by her ties to the little Gaulish village we know so well