#2022tef — Public Fediverse posts

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Christos Ellinides, Director General of DGT, delivering a closing speech on the importance of translation. And decades of translation evolving tremendously from the technological point of view.

Audience delivering a sense of humour in Slido :)

#2022TEF

James Hurrell, BBC, passionately defends quality. BBC does not compromise on quality in favour of cost. He cannot imagine producing a beautiful documentary with Sir David Attenborough or other science-heavy programming and having that poorly translated. #2022TEF

Adrian Probst, Freelancerverse YouTuber, encourages young professionals to charge what their work is worth and to never settle for less. #2022TEF

James Hurrell, BBC, prefers to use the term globalization instead of localization. For producers, localization is not an afterthought, but built into the entire process. The demand has skyrocketed with streaming services wanting to maximize their reach and broadcasters working on their old archives to give users more value for their money. #2022TEF

An audience member emphasized the problem of translators using second rate MT results in a rush, which in turn feeds into the training material for MT, reinforcing second-rate solutions. #2022TEF

Stavroula Sokoli shares experience with social media picking up on horrible MT errors (eg “mi alma” term of endearment translated as a weapon, “mi arma”). LAP gets concerned, the paying customer becomes more aware of the importance of quality.

The only way to prevent prevalence of raw machine translation/transcription is for clients to realize the probability of such consequences. #2022TEF

Danes imam pa rdeč hoodie :) #2022TEF

The *landscape* in children’s stories has become *blandscape*.

Description of landscape affects the ethical outcome. No more words for tree species, various kinds of water bodies, animals, means that they disappear from the mind.

“Language leads to knowing and knowing leads to caring.”

#2022TEF #keynote #MichaelCronin

It is not up to Earth to learn human language, but the other way around. #2022TEF #keynote #MichaelCronin

Are we going to give legal representation to mountains, rivers, forests? If so, how will we translate in proceedings? How do we translate between humans and other species?
(Wonder whether @davidallengreen has thoughts on this.)
#2022TEF #keynote #MichaelCronin

Can we hang on to our current restricted language palate once climate migration begins in earnest? #keynote #2022TEF #MIchaelCronin

There is a strong link between translation and technology. Social media leads to provincialisation of the human mind. People tend to only communicate online to people in their own linguistic bubble. #Translation can help break down those #bubble barriers. #keynote #2022TEF

Michael Cronin giving his #2022TEF keynote The Power of Words.

#Translators have an important role to play in how we think about #ecological and environmental outcomes.

What drives a society is invisible. Have you seen a poem or a theatre play about dossil fuel? Energy is a dirty secret of our society.

Markus Foti’s advice to translators is to not try and compete in terms of speed/productivity, but rather develop specializations. #2022TEF

Bruno Pouliquen doing speech to text for #WIPO meetings and conferences where transcriptions are available in a few hours after an event.
Panel chair Markus Foti: “What is the user feedback like?”
Bruno: “User feedback is good, because there is no user feedback.”
ROTFLMAO
#2022TEF

Very well put! #2022TEF

https://mastodon.ie/@Sliotar/109320167487281864

Udeleženci okroglih miz med govorom gledajo druge za mizo ali publiko. Pride nova, mlada zasedba. Eden od njih ima svoj YouTube kanal. Ko govori, nagne glavo, se nasmehne in gleda mimo ostalih ljudi direkt v kamero, ki toči na internet :) #2022TEF

“One of my first clients was an Instagram influencer.” - Lucia Doval, panel chair on the subject of young professionals. What an
own age wake-up call!! :))) #2022TEF

Fascinating! Dr Gamhewage explains that using an interpreter from the same cultural environment can be a disadvantage. For example, the interpreter is usually a man when she is talking about sexual misconduct and sometimes he interprets what she says in accordance with his personal beliefs. #2022TEF

Tehnologija je tako napredovala, da so na WHO s pomočjo Prevajalcev brez meja sveženj navodil in priporočil v zvezi z izbruhom ebole prevedli v jezik lingali in posredovali lokalcem v DR Kongo, še preden so jih lahko dosegle strokovne ekipe (12-urna pot na motorjih. #2022TEF

Dr Gaya Gamhewage, Director, Prevention of and Responsw ro Sexual Misxonduct, WHO, on the importance od translation, particularly of medical-related texts, for affected populations, far beyond UN languages. For example, even the Swahili differs from region to region. #2022TEF

This has touched me even more than Tetyana yesterday. A presentation, in complete silence (just soundless video and subtitles) of how Slovak sign language interpreters helped the deaf Ukranian refugees and how technology helped. Video calls and chats, teaching each other’s sign language. Helping with housing, school for kids. #2022TEF

I logged into the #2022TEF stream solely to get a clearer pic of Fred Bane’s tie :) #dogsofmastadon

A very interesting exchange between a member of the team in charge of real-time transcription of debates in the European Parliament and the panel member from ORF. The ORF panelist does not support using completely unedited machine transcription. (Remember, they do basic checks in the two-minute gap between RL and stream.) #2022TEF

EuroVOX se ne bori proti lažnim novicam, pravi Benjamin Poor. To počne profesionalni novinar, ki posname/napiše prispevek - in tisti, ki ga s pomočjo EuroVOXa podnaslovi ipd. #2022TEF

Benjamin Poor predstavlja projekt EuroVOX, ki ponuja jezikovna orodja članom Evropskw radiodifuzne zveze (v Sloveniji RTV). Poudarja pomen profesionalnih novinarjev, ki jih uporabljajo. #2022TEF

Birgit Grübl z ORF razlaga, da pri strojnem samodejnem podnaslavljanju konferenc video dobijo dve minuti pred tv publiko in v tem času strojno generirani zapis popravljajo na roko. #2022TEF

Lnguage tools and health care: Research work in Barcelona being done on speech recognition to detect markers for Parkinsons’ disease. #2022TEF

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