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COVID-19 Impact Testimonials

July 2, 2020 By Webmaster

1. Aída COVID-19 has brought many challenges to my life as a translator. I was used to working alone and now I’m sharing my “sacred and quiet” space with my husband and my two kids all day long. Homeschooling made it more difficult to maintain a routine and keep my standard productivity. Some days are […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 7, Newsletter Tagged With: 2020, Aída Carrazco, Ana Salotti, COVID-19, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 7, Dietlinde DuPlessis, María Delgado

Pivot Languages in Subtitling

May 11, 2020 By Webmaster

by Dietlinde DuPlessis If you translate subtitles for streaming services into languages other than English, you most likely have received pivot-language assignments. If you are a native English speaker, you might have been asked to produce templates for pivot translations. If you are not familiar with the term pivot language, here is a short definition: […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 6, Newsletter Tagged With: 2020, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 6, Dietlinde DuPlessis, Netflix, Subtitling, Timed master templates

A different kind of audiovisual translation: Intralingual respeaking

February 24, 2020 By Webmaster

By Dietlinde DuPlessis Any trained interpreter knows an exercise called “shadowing” which is used to prepare students for simultaneous interpreting. It consists of listening to spoken text and repeating spoken words as exactly as possible. It is harder than it might sound because one must listen and speak at the same time. It helps to […]

Filed Under: Deep Focus 5, Newsletter Tagged With: 2019, accessibility, automatic speech recognition, Closed Captioning, deaf and hard-of-hearing, Deep Focus, Deep Focus Issue 5, Dietlinde DuPlessis, interlingual real-time captioning, Interlingual Respeaking, Respeaking, Speech recognition softwares, Voice Writing

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