Machine Translation and Audiovisual products : A case study
Martín Mor, Adrià (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació i d'Estudis de l'Àsia Oriental)
Sánchez-Gijón, Pilar (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Traducció i d'Interpretació i d'Estudis de l'Àsia Oriental)

Date:	2016
Abstract:	Much has been said and written about the effects that machine translation (MT) is having on all kinds of published products. This paper discusses the introduction of MT in the localisation of audiovisual products in general and particularly voiceover documentaries. Incorporating MT into the translation of voiceover documentaries would boost the dissemination of non-commercial or minority products, and could enhance the spread of culture. While it might at first seem that MT could be easily integrated into translation for documentaries, some particular aspects make it difficult to use MT to translate for dubbing or for voice-overs. We therefore designed an exploratory study using a corpus containing different texts of a film, in order to compare the results of different automatic measures. The preliminary results show that different results are obtained for different types of speech and that the application of automatic metrics produces similar results. In this article, we will present furthermore the methodological design, which might be considered useful for other studies of this kind.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad FFI2012-31024
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Machine Translation ; Postediting ; Audiovisual translation ; Dubbing ; Voice-over
Published in:	JoSTrans: Journal of Specialised Translation, Num. 26 (2016) , ISSN 1740-357X

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