Machine translation in audio description? Comparing creation, translation and post-editing efforts

Machine translation has been proved worthwhile, in terms of time saving and productivity gains, in technical and administrative translation domains. In order to examine whether this also applies to audio description, an experiment comparing the efforts of creating an audio description from scratch,...

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Bibliographic Details
Authors: Fernández Torné, Ana|||0000-0002-0132-5945, Matamala, Anna|||0000-0002-1607-9011
Format: article
Publication Date:2016
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repository:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Language:English
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:149208
Online Access:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/149208
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Accessibility
Audio description
Audiovisual translation
Machine translation
Catalan language
Post-editing effort
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Summary:Machine translation has been proved worthwhile, in terms of time saving and productivity gains, in technical and administrative translation domains. In order to examine whether this also applies to audio description, an experiment comparing the efforts of creating an audio description from scratch, of translating it manually from English into Catalan and of post-editing its machine translated version has shown that the objective post-editing effort is lower than creating it ex novo. However, the subjective effort is perceived to be higher.