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Project 4
M7: Project 4
Select a TED talk on you tube https://www.ted.com/playlists. On the playlist, select "all topics".
Select a video and reserve it ON THE GLOSSARY at the end of this module
Edit 2 to 3 minutes of the video (ex: from minute 0:00 to minute 2:30 of the video (If the same video is selected by a classmate, you can decide to use the segment 3:00 to 5:30, for instance)
(indicate in the text the timing for each paragraph)
Use your speech-to-text to produce the transcript and cat tools to produce the translation of your transcript. (If this helps you)
Review and correct the results of your cat tools and color or underline your modifications of the cat tool results.
Note: In a subtitling professional work, the version for the subtitling that must be sent to the client is an SRT file. Here is an example of work for subtitling a 15-min video from Dutch to English. The second part of this document shows the SRT form, the first part shows a bilingual transcript - .
The SRT can be automatically applied to a video, that's why this format is demanded when you work as an audiovisual translator. Here, except if you want to produce a real subtitled video, you may just produce the bilingual form.
Here, you will produce a bilingual transcript of your selected video and show it on your website, comment briefly on the topic selected: Why did you select this particular video?
How to Tie your Shoes
Author: Terry Moore
Date: February 2005
Original Article: https://www.ted.com/talks/terry_moore_how_to_tie_your_shoes
Transcripting Tool: https://anthiago.com/transcript/
Tools: Matecat (CAT)
TED Talk Transcript
English
TED Talk Transcript
English
I'm used to thinking of the TED audience as a wonderful collection of some of the most effective, intelligent, intellectual, savvy, worldly and innovative people in the world. And I think that's true. However, I also have reason to believe that many, if not most, of you are actually tying your shoes incorrectly. (Laughter)
Matecat
Spanish
Matecat
Spanish
Suelo considerar a la audiencia de TED como una maravillosa colección de algunas de las personas más eficaces, inteligentes, intelectuales, conocedoras, experimentadas e innovadoras del mundo. Y creo que eso es cierto. Sin embargo, también tengo razones para creer que muchos, si no es la mayoría, de ustedes están atando sus zapatos mal.
(Risas)
Now I know that seems ludicrous. I know that seems ludicrous. And believe me, I lived the same sad life until about three years ago. And what happened to me was I bought, what was for me, a very expensive pair of shoes. But those shoes came with round nylon laces, and I couldn't keep them tied. So I went back to the store and said to the owner, "I love the shoes, but I hate the laces." He took a look and said, "Oh, you're tying them wrong."
Bueno, sé que eso parece ridículo. Sé que parece ridículo. Y créanme, he vivido esa misma vida triste hasta hace unos 3 años. Y lo que me pasó fue que compré un par de zapatos, que para mí eran muy caros. Pero esos zapatos vinieron con cordones de nylon redondo, y no podía mantenerlos atados. Así que regresé a la zapatería y le dije al vendedor, "Me encantan los zapatos, pero detesto los cordones". Les dio una mirada y dijo: "Oh, los está atando mal".
Now up until that moment, I would have thought that, by age 50, one of the life skills that I had really nailed was tying my shoes. (Laughter) But not so -- let me demonstrate. This is the way that most of us were taught to tie our shoes. Now as it turns out -- thank you. (Applause) Wait, there's more. As it turns out -- (Laughter) there's a strong form and a weak form of this knot, and we were taught the weak form. And here's how to tell.
Hasta ese momento, yo hubiese pensado que, a los 50 años, una de las tareas diarias que realmente dominaba era atarme los zapatos. (Risas) Pero no es así, déjenme demostrar. Esta es la forma en que la mayoría de nosotros aprendió a atarse los zapatos. Ahora bien, como resultó… gracias. (Aplausos) Espera, hay más. Como resultó, (risas) este nudo tiene una forma fuerte y otra débil, y nos enseñaron la forma débil. Y así es cómo se distinguen.
If you pull the strands at the base of the knot, you will see that the bow will orient itself down the long axis of the shoe. That's the weak form of the knot. But not to worry. If we start over and simply go the other direction around the bow, we get this, the strong form of the knot. And if you pull the cords under the knot, you will see that the bow orients itself along the transverse axis of the shoe.
Si jalan la trenza desde la base del nudo, verán que el lazo se orienta hacia abajo a lo largo del eje del zapato. Esta es la forma débil del nudo. Pero no se preocupen. Si empezamos de nuevo y simplemente vamos en la otra dirección alrededor del lazo, tenemos esto, la forma fuerte del nudo. Y si jalamos el cordón debajo del nudo, veremos que el lazo se orienta a lo largo del eje transversal del zapato.
This is a stronger knot. It will come untied less often. It will let you down less, and not only that, it looks better. We're going to do this one more time. (Applause) Start as usual -- (Applause) go the other way around the loop. This is a little hard for children, but I think you can handle it. Pull the knot. There it is: the strong form of the shoe knot.
Este es un nudo más fuerte. Se desatará con menos frecuencia. Se agacharán menos. Y no solo eso, también se ve mejor. Lo vamos a hacer una vez más. (Aplausos) Comienza como de costumbre -- (Aplausos) ve al revés. Es un poco difícil para los niños, pero creo que ustedes pueden hacerlo. Jalen el nudo. Ahí está: la forma fuerte de anudar los zapatos.
Now, in keeping with today's theme, I'd like to point out -- something you already know -- that sometimes a small advantage someplace in life can yield tremendous results someplace else. (Laughter) Live long and prosper.
(Applause)
Ahora, siguiendo el tema de hoy, me gustaría señalar –y algo que ya saben– que a veces una pequeña ventaja en algún momento en la vida puede dar grandes resultados en otro lugar. (Risas) Vive mucho y prospera.
(Aplausos)
Final Edition (as reviewed by Human Translator):
(same as the Matecat translation, but always addressing the audience in plural)
Legend:
Black for the original article, as well as anything the translations have in common
Blue for Matecat Translation
Red for adaptation and/or equivalence
Green for the Human Translator Edition (I will not highlight any commonalities with the translations)
Yellow highlight for errors
Translation Observations
I had to manually use italics for the crowd reactions, namely the (Applause) and the (Laughter).
Since he's talking in front of an audience, he should address them in plural form. However, in one part of the translation, he uses the singular form to address the audience, which is inconsistent with the rest of the translation, and also incorrect, as the audience has multiple people in it.
There are a few points where the translation uses the adaptation and equivalence techniques where literal or calque would not make any sense in the translation. I did not mark them as errors, but figured I'd mark them anyways.
I did not mark any errors in the transcription because it's a quotation.
Translator Comments
I decided against using Google Docs for the transcription. Trying to use the microphone was difficult. Instead, I used https://anthiago.com/transcript/ to get the transcription from the video itself, but it basically just copy-pasted the already existing captions on the video itself.
I chose this specific video for a few reasons:
it was under the category for "Comedy", and I like to laugh
it was just under 3 minutes, which simplifies things because then I can use the entire video and I don't have to choose a particular timeframe for this assignment or to split the video
I was curious about his take on the tying of the shoes
TED Talk Transcript is an Alliteration. Not sure why I felt like pointing this out.
Overall final thoughts:
Very good translation, except for the one part where it addressed the audience in singular form, which is inconsistent with the rest of the document.
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