Shared Attention during Sight Translation, Sight Interpretation and Simultaneous Interpretation

Shared Sight: Sirens

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Constructing a Speech Translation System using Simultaneous Interpretation Data

There has been a fair amount of work on automatic speech translation systems that translate in real-time, serving as a computerized version of a simultaneous interpreter. It has been noticed in the field of translation studies that simultaneous interpreters perform a number of tricks to make the content easier to understand in real-time, including dividing their translations into small chunks, ...

First sight

But despite the portrait and interrogation by doctors in London, Jesty never received credit for his pioneering work, with all the credit and financial rewards going to Jenner with his many friends in the medical establishment in London who spent considerable time and money refining the technique. Jenner never accepted that he had been preempted over vaccination by Jesty. However, the Jestys fr...

Translation, Interpretation and Intercultural Communication

Recent trends in Translation Studies advocate a focus on translation as a form of intercultural communication. Yet in some cases there seems to be a lack of awareness as regards the theoretical problems involved in every cultural approach to translation. The aim of this article is to highlight some aspects of these problems by bringing to the fore the interconnections between the question of tr...

Translation and Monotonic Interpretation/generation