Recent trends in translator training – audiovisual translation and applied technologies at stake

Film Studies and Translation Studies: Two Disciplines at Stake in Audiovisual Translation

Audiovisual texts are usually built according to the conventions of film language, a complex language that overcomes linguistic communication and has its own rules and conventions. In film language it is possible to distinguish several signifying codes which complement and frame words and linguistic meaning. This paper will focus on the interplay of non-linguistic codes in film language and aud...

The ALST Project: Technologies for Audiovisual Translation

This paper presents an overview of the ALST project, in which speech technologies (speech recognition and speech synthesis) and machine translation were implemented in the voice-over of non-fictional genres and in the audio description of films. The paper presents the project rationale, a brief description of the experiments carried out within the project, as well as its main findings.

Recent Trends in Machine Translation

In the last two years machine translation (MT) has embarked on a voyage into the future, spurred by the presence of personal computers on individual desktops throughout the world and, more recently, universal access to electronic text on-line. This impressive growth has led to many new trends, including major changes in the profile of the user. Apace with this trajectory has come better communi...

investigating the integration of translation technologies into translation programs in iranian universities: basis for a syllabus design in translation technology

today, information technology and computers are indispensable tools of any profession and translation technologies have become an indispensable part of translator’s workstation. with the increasing demands for high productivity and speed as well as consistency and with the rise of new demands for translation and localization, it is necessary for translators to be familiar with market demands an...

Translation Technology and the Translator