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See hear: crowdsourced subtitles for everyday life
August 9, 2012As anyone who has watched a few movies with unofficial subtitles will know, quality control can be a bit of an issue. But even in the world of terrible, inaccurate subtitles, nothing comes close to the awful poetry that is Star War the Third Gathers: Backstroke of the West (better known as Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith ). The homemade subtitles that accompany this pirated version of George Lucas’ blockbuster are so wildly mangled …
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Amazon Mechanical Turk, George Lucas, Mechanical Turk, Scribe, Star Trek, subtitles, Universal Translator, University of Rochester | 1 CommentThe Italian Job
January 14, 2010… with the average person from Scandinavia for example – where programs and movies are aired with subtitles instead of dubbing – and the difference is marked.
While many Italians love their dubbed TV, a large number prefer subtitles in order to maintain a show’s original flavor and to help develop their English skills. Once upon a time these people would have had no alternative to an Italian speaking Homer Simpson. Perhaps they could have purchased expensive satellite systems to pick up …
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crowdsourcing, fanmade, monkey island, piracy, sky, subtitles, torrent, translation, tv series | 7 CommentsSpeakerText: serious about subtitles
March 23, 2011 The 1980s was a strange decade. An era of big business, big hair and really big mobile phones . It was also the golden age of the VHS video player.
Thanks to a cutting edge piece of technology called the rewind button , we could enjoy classic scenes from Star Wars , The Karate Kid and Crocodile Dundee again and again (although watching the Death Star explode too many …
Look Who’s Talking
December 9, 2009… pick up colds.
For the rest of us mere mortals, who prefer to watch our foreign movies with subtitles, the ongoing effort to improve machine translation is a noble cause. Although I secretly enjoy being able to do at least one thing better than my computer, even I can see the upside. Imagine a world where everyone could understand each other. The potential for economic and social progress is enormous.
If my computer does ever manage to translate something better than a human …
