Technological advances in audiovisual translation

Cintas, Jorge Díaz; Massidda, Serenella

doi:10.4324/9781315311258-15

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“…According to The Global Competitiveness Report 2020, 46 % of current jobs in the OECD region are "at high risk" of automation (Schwab & Zahidi, 2020). The language services world is no exception, and the effects and consequences of the introduction of technologies in the professional workflow are beginning to be felt in all areas of specialisation, even in those that were thought to be the last bastion against technologies, such as literary translation (Guerberof-Arenas & Toral, 2020) or audiovisual translation (Díaz-Cintas & Massidda, 2019). In this section, therefore, we discuss some of the most notable effects of translation technologies today and comment on their effects and causes, as well as the direction in which we are heading in the (not-too-distant) future.…”

Section: The Effects Of Automation On the Industrymentioning

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The Language Engineer: A Transversal, Emerging Role for the Automation Age

Briva-Iglesias

O’Brien

2022

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El presente artículo analiza el papel de las traductoras en una industria que evoluciona rápidamente por la digitalización y la automatización, y sugiere las habilidades y competencias que estas deberán adoptar para tener éxito en un futuro (no muy lejano). Esta investigación se basa en una revisión exhaustiva de las oportunidades laborales del mercado laboral actual con técnicas de minado de datos con Python, así como en encuestas recientes que pretenden comprender qué funciones están desempeñando las traductoras en la actualidad. En el mundo globalizado actual, los servicios lingüísticos son mucho más que solo traducir. Proponemos diferentes áreas de especialización que ofrecerán oportunidades laborales de éxito y sostenibles en la era de la automatización al seguir y aplicar las tendencias de la industria de los servicios lingüísticos. Asimismo, analizamos las tendencias del sector y las habilidades y competencias que serán clave en el (no tan lejano) mercado laboral, y proponemos un nuevo perfil profesional, muy técnico y simbiótico con la tecnología: el de ingeniera lingüística. Las ingenieras lingüísticas son personas con los perfiles necesarios para triunfar en la era de la automatización, y serán capaces de ocupar las múltiples posiciones laborales, nuevas y transversales, que aparecerán como resultado de los recientes avances tecnológicos. Numerosos estudios se han centrado en los "beneficios" de la tecnología en términos de aumento de la productividad. Las tendencias actuales del mercado también han dado lugar a estudios que cuestionan la sostenibilidad de la profesión de las traductoras. Sin duda, la tecnología cambia nuestras vidas, pero depende de nosotras que lo haga para bien o para mal. En nuestra relación con la tecnología, podemos resistir, cooperar o reinventarnos. Consideramos que defender una posición ludita solo traerá consecuencias negativas para la profesión y, por ello, proponemos el papel de las ingenieras lingüísticas, que no solo cooperarán con la tecnología y se beneficiarán de ella, sino que verán aumentadas sus habilidades y competencias para satisfacer las exigencias del sector al estar al día de los avances tecnológicos.

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Section: The Effects Of Automation On the Industrymentioning

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The Language Engineer: A Transversal, Emerging Role for the Automation Age

Briva-Iglesias

O’Brien

2022

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“…As discussed, simultaneous interpreting was in fact the main research topic in the seminal phase of CTIS and it has constantly attracted much attention over the years. Audiovisual translation has also attracted much attention in recent years because of the surge in demand of translated audiovisual content (Díaz Cintas & Massidda, 2019). Post-editing (11.7%) in CTIS has been a very productive professional field owing to the recent developments in machine translation systems in recent years.…”

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Mapping cognitive translation and interpreting studies: A bibliometric approach

2021

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This article identifies the specific characteristics of Cognitive Translation and Interpreting Studies (CTIS) as a branch of Translation and Interpreting Studies (TIS), adopting a bibliometric approach. The main data source for this study was the Bibliography of Interpreting and Translation (BITRA), which – as at September 2019 – included more than 77,000 TIS records, covering the diversity of languages and document types used in TIS research. BTRA is the only TIS database to feature citing information. CTIS-related records were analysed, and those published between 1976 and 2015 were compared with the whole corpus of TIS research output for the same period – again, as registered in BITRA. Specifically, we analysed: (a) the general features and evolution of CTIS publications over time (by thematic co-occurrence, by title content words, by format and by language); (b) authorship, focusing on co-authorship and on the most productive authors; (c) the citation patterns of CTIS documents, including a brief analysis of its most cited authors and publications; and (d) CTIS accessibility through a study of the ratio of documents published in open access. These aspects were analysed both synchronically and diachronically so as to describe CTIS as a whole and to identify any changes over time. Our results yield a first overview of CTIS from a bibliometric perspective and provide a methodological point of departure for future bibliometric studies in this area.

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“…Society today is characterized by an ever-growing daily consumption of audiovisual content led mainly by streaming platforms and the provision of information on the internet (Easton, 2021). New technologies have altered both industry workflows and translators' workstations and habits, gaining momentum in the media localization industry in particular (Díaz-Cintas & Massidda, 2019). In this industry, a more comprehensive integration of automation tools, such as translation memory (TM) tools, machine translation (MT) systems and automatic speech recognition (ASR) can be observed (Burchardt et al, 2016).…”

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Integrating post-editing into the subtitling classroom: what do subtitlers-to-be think?

Bolaños García-Escribano,

Díaz-Cintas

2023

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In today’s professional landscapes, new technologies have altered media localization workflows as much as practitioners’ workstations and habits. A more comprehensive integration of automation tools, including (neural) machine translation systems, has been ushered in by the proliferation of cloud ecosystems. In a further technological drive in the production of subtitle projects, systems now integrate automatic speech recognition and can machine translate subtitles from pre-spotted templates. The rise of post-editors in media localization, specifically in subtitling, has been a reality for some time now, triggering the need for up-to-date training methods and academic curricula. It is against this backdrop that this article seeks to examine the perception of post-editing among trainees in subtitling. A total of four teaching experiences, conceived as practical experiments in interlingual subtitle post-editing (English into Spanish), involving postgraduate students from both Spain and the United Kingdom, are described here. The sample comprised 36 master’s-level students enrolled in translator training programmes that have a focus on audiovisual translation. A mixed-methods approach was adopted for this study; after each experience, the feedback collated through online questionnaires has proved paramount to understanding the participants’ opinions about post-editing in the subtitling classroom. Interestingly, most of the respondents believe that subtitle post-editing training should feature more prominently in translation curricula even though they have voiced their reluctance to undertake post-editing work professionally.

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Technological advances in audiovisual translation

Cited by 36 publications

References 4 publications

The Language Engineer: A Transversal, Emerging Role for the Automation Age

The Language Engineer: A Transversal, Emerging Role for the Automation Age

Mapping cognitive translation and interpreting studies: A bibliometric approach

Integrating post-editing into the subtitling classroom: what do subtitlers-to-be think?

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