The Spanish Audiovisual Translation and Adaptation Association (ATRAE) is taking a stand against post-editing by urging the major audiovisual platforms to eliminate such practices. The International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI) endorses ATRAE’s statement, and translated it into English to reach the international T&I community. ATRAE States its View on Post-Editing The Spanish […]
The Spanish Audiovisual Translation and Adaptation Association (ATRAE) is taking a stand against post-editing by urging the major audiovisual platforms to eliminate such practices The International Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters (IAPTI) endorses ATRAE’s statement, and translated it into English to reach the international T&I community
ATRAE States its View on Post-Editing
The Spanish Audiovisual Translation and Adaptation Association, ATRAE, is taking a stand against post-editing by urging the major audiovisual platforms to eliminate such practices and thereby stop damaging a sector that is already vulnerable
We are shocked and dumbfounded to learn that Squid Game, the series that has been topping the most viewed series on Netflix, with hundreds of reviews mentioning its quality, has been subtitled using post-edited machine translation
As translators, we simply cannot understand how this series, or any other audiovisual production, could be left to a translation algorithm, a method that guarantees deficient results that must subsequently be corrected by a language professional who receives only a paltry fee
Clearly, this is yet another turn of the screw contributing to the sector’s precarious situation Translators now not only have to put up with intermediaries [...]
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