Guidelines for translation and dubbing

Title of script: Guidelines for translation and recording

Author: Namita

Keywords: Translation, dubbing, recording

Visual cues	Narration
Slide 1 Topic acknowledgement to TTT, NMEICT url of the project Script writer and Narrators Name and affiliation Date of creation	Welcome to the spoken tutorial on the Guidelines for translating and recording.
Slide 2:	Please listen to Introduction on Spoken Tutorials available at http://spoken- tutorial.org/What is a Spoken Tutorial before starting to translate and record
Slide 3:	Translation can be done in two ways: Handwritten script or Typed script using any typesetting software Let us now see 2 examples of the scripts.
Show a handwritten script a typed script using type setting software.	This is a hand-written script. This is typed script using a software.
Slide 4: 4 points	We shall now present some guidelines on translation: Read the original script carefully a couple of times. Translate the script sentence by sentence Each translated sentence should be less than or equal to the original sentence. Constuct the sentence without changing the meaning of the content
Slide 5:	Use simple words Use simple language Need not translate technical words like computer and mouse. These words can remain in English itself.
Slide 6:3 Points	After translation, please do the following: Listen to the original video Note the time when each sentence starts We will soon have a provision on our wiki page to enter these time lines. Get your translation verified by a friend The spoken tutorial team will also help you
Slide 7: 4 points	Please inform the spoken tutorial team about the completion
Slide 8: 4 points	To upload the script on Mediawiki Type the transalated script on the Mediawiki using indic font. Let us see the demo
Show the url: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-transliteration-formerl/	Please install the plug in which is on this url You can find this plug in when you search it on the google search engine too.
demo	Click on download or install Remember that this plug in works only on Mozilla Firefox
	When the plug in is installed restart the mozilla firefox browser Go to the spoken tutorial mediawiki by logging in You will find a small window. This window has some of the Indian languages mentioned Select the desired language. Here I am selecting Hindi Click on the checkbox. After this you could type in English the Hindi words like I am doing now. This gets translated into Hindi like this. In this way, you could translate the script into some of the Indian languages.
Slide 9	Please note that if the indic font is not available for your language you need to upload the pdf form of the script. Let us see the demo
Demo: Open the mediawiki login show upload tab browse through a file and upload show the automatically generated page copy and paste the url to the required page	Please register on spoken tutorial mediawiki If you have already registered, please log into the mediawiki like I have done here Go to the upload tab on the left hand side panel browse through the file and upload it directly This will lead you to an automatically generated page Copy the url like this and paste it at the required place. For example I shall paste the url here because I want it linked To this language.
Slide: 10	After the traslation is put up on mediawiki Please go through the tutorial on Guidelines for recording and narration which is on this url
Slide 11	For dubbing, we recommend the following two packages Audacity on Linux Windows Movie Maker on Windows
Show url	The tutorial on Audacity is available on www.spoken-tutorial.org
Slide 12	Windows users should also see this tutorial Some steps are better explained here.
Show url	The tutorial on Windows Movie Maker is also available on www.spoken-tutorial.org
Show url: http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/Dubbers_Checklist	After dubbing a tutorial Please go through the checklist This will help you to self verify
Slide 13:	When you have verified Please send the tutorial to the spoken tutorial admin team
Show url: http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/Admin_Checklist_Dubbing	Spoken Tutorial admin team checks against the criteria given in this checklist
Slide 14:	If the spoken tutorial team has any suggestions, please incorporate them and Resend it to the admin team again. The spoken tutorial admin team then sends the tutorial for reviews.
http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/RCL#DUBBING	The reviewer of the translated tutorial checks against the criteria given in the following checklist
Slide 15:	The admin team uploads your dubbed tutorial on Spoken tutorial website
Slide 16:	In this tutorial we have seen The guidelines to translate The procedure to upload and type the translated script on the mediawiki The process of validation and Reviews
Show url: http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/Dubbing_Stages	For the whole process of dubbing, please go through the following url
Slide 17	SPOKEN TUTORIAL PROJECT is an initiative of the ‘Talk to a Teacher' project. The project is coordinated by http://spoken-tutorial.org. Funding for this work has come from the National Mission on Education through ICT, launched by MHRD, Government of India. For more details pls watch http://spoken-tutorial.org/NMEICT-Intro This brings us to the end of the tutorial on Guidelines for translation and recording. This script has been contributed by Namita Lobo and This is Payel Mukherjee and Namita Lobo from IIT Bombay signing off.

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