Looking fwd to speaking at this online symposium tomorrow on audience perspectives in AVT. Sad not to be in Forlì in person, but event moved online because of the general strike.

Anybody welcome to attend. Forms signup sheet is here:
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And In this scene from The Queen, Victoria Hamilton says 'vice provost', not 'vice promise'. 'Vice Provost of Eton College' was correctly spelt half a minute earlier in that scene.

It's not just me, right, who finds these basic ASR errors distracting and annoying?

#subtitles #sloppysubtitles

I am so, so OVER short videos w/ basic subtitle transcription errors.

Michael Rooker says 'robbing that camp BLIND'.

Would it kill posters to proofread? Is there some deep technical reason why it's impossible to correct subtitles in vertical video?

#subtitles #sloppysubtitles

For International Day for Audiovisual Heritage (yay!📽️), I am honoring some distinguished subtitlers through their on-screen credits. Without which, etc....

Mai Harris gets two credits because she is awesome & subtitled most foreign films that screened in UK 1934-1960s... #filmtranslationhistory

Delighted to announce 20 scholarships for our new programmes in Translation & Intercultural Studies and Interpreting at @bristoluni.bsky.social!

More info available via the QR code or feel free to ping me a DM
#scholarships #translation #translationstudies #interpreting

All these events are part of the UK Subtitling Audiences Network, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, and are in partnership with the Watershed, the Association des Traducteurs Adaptateurs de l'Audiovisuel, and Stagetext.

I saw this yesterday and liked it; all leads good but the two performances that really knocked my socks off were Jennifer Ehle as Laura Madden and Andre Braugher as Dean Baquet. #awesomeacting

Really excellent panel on audiovisual translation this morning; now the #TranslatingEurope forum on Contemporary Challenges in Translation is beginning

Enjoying the first day of #TSNI2025 - the 2025 Translation Studies Network of Ireland conference at Dublin City University. ctts.ie/tsni-5/

1970s attitudes to the subtitles of the time. Here's that Munster Express reviewer again: #filmtranslationhistory

To be fair, films were much less densely subtitled back then, and he wasn't the only person complaining...
#subtitles #audiovisualtranslation #foreignfilms

Irish language use in the media is very different now, but here is a 1978 reaction by a journalist in the Munster Express to the idea that Irish language subtitles could be put on old films: #filmtranslationhistory