Wisdom – Inspiration – Strategy – Technology – Transformation
I have been working on an automatic subtitle evaluation project recently and have had to compare the output of different speech recognition and machine translation providers.
When time, effort or volume does not allow you to use a professional subtitler … Read the rest
A few weeks ago, I had the honour to open the 15th edition of the Languages & The Media international conference and exhibition at the amazing Anantara New York Palace hotel in Budapest.
The words #DutyOfCare, introduced in the … Read the rest
Brussels, 6-8 November 2024
Freelancers and Language Service Providers: Different Views, Same Goals?
What better way to start off the year than an interview on one of your favourite topics? I was recently interviewed by the “En sincronía” team for their podcast. A big thank you to Damián Santilli, Blanca Arias Badia and … Read the rest
Athena Consultancy frequently handles User Acceptance Testing (UAT) projects for media localization clients, and a few months ago, a special request came in: I was asked to check how a cloud-based subtitling tool compared to one of the popular desktop … Read the rest
More and more language service providers in the media localisation industry are experimenting with and implementing machine translation (MT) solutions in their subtitling workflows. As I mentioned in an earlier blog post, it is important to think about the … Read the rest
So great to finally see this book published! One of my last few trips in the pre-Covid world was to Luxembourg, to present at this DG TRAD conference among other esteemed colleagues. It was also where I got to meet … Read the rest
I am not a computer scientist, but I have been working with machine translation (MT) in the creative industries for almost a decade: testing it, measuring its quality and impact on productivity, drafting MT implementation plans, managing proofs of concept … Read the rest