Outsourcing Subtitles to India
Oh, brother. Captions / subtitles fall victim to India outsourcing. The Infoweek article [Thanks, Stone Deaf Pilots] gives a good example of what happens when you send English translation to a place where English isn’t the first language.
For example, in the movie My Super Ex-Girlfriend, Uma Thurman utters the line “We have a zero-tolerance policy for (sexual harassment).”
But as rendered by Indian workers, the line reads like it’s from a Borat movie: “We hold the highest standards for sexual harassment by foreign workers.”
Yeah.
Oh, and Stone Deaf Pilots also reports on AOL captioning videos.
Comments
Yeah - not surprised.
We’ve discussed about it thru closed-environment mailing list under captioning group at Yahoogroups.com last year. (You can join if you want to.)
It’s going be interesting!
gwlj
Posted by: Grant W Laird Jr | October 8, 2007 2:15 AM