Let’s dive into some possible software options to help us in our work and see what’s new for subtitlers. So, what have we been missing in between? Well, features like the ones found in tools technical translators use (e.g., memoQ, Wordfast, and Trados Studio)-although we also have our own options, kind of. Although some things have changed in the past few years, professional subtitlers working for direct clients like production companies, or even film directors themselves, have been using the same resources for a while now: free software and software that’s too expensive for some freelancers. We rapidly went from receiving physical materials to subtitle to logging into our clients’ servers to download media and then email back the subtitles. In audiovisual translation (AVT), however, despite technical improvements and innovations in apps from streaming services, it sometimes feels like we subtitlers are still working in much the same way we did back in 2000.īack then, we faced a huge leap in methodology and tool availability.

The overwhelming presence of neural machine translation (NMT) in every translation suite, plus the constant improvement of technologies (e.g., upLIFT from SDL Trados Studio) are changing the way we approach translation with almost every project. Translation environment tools are steadily improving. Jost Zetzsche (Chair, ATA Translation and Interpreting Resources Committee) So, in a slight departure from my usual column, Damián will take over from here with a slightly modified version of his original article. A few weeks ago, I asked Damián Santilli to write an article about the current state of audiovisual translation tools for my own Tool Box Journal ( He did, and my readers and I were very impressed by the depth of his knowledge and his vision for a field that’s growing very rapidly.

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