Difference between revisions of "/Guidelines for translation and dubbing"

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translating and recording.

available at http://spoken- tutorial.org/What is a Spoken Tutorial

before starting to translate and record

Handwritten script or

Typed script using any typesetting software

Let us now see 2 examples of the scripts.

a handwritten script

a typed script using type setting software.

This is typed script using a software.

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

Use simple language

Need not translate technical words like computer and mouse.

These words can remain in English itself.

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

Type the transalated script on the Mediawiki using indic font.

Let us see the demo

You can find this plug in when you search it on the google search engine too.

Remember that this plug in works only on Mozilla Firefox

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.

you need to upload the pdf form of the script.

Let us see the demo

login

show upload tab

browse through a file and upload

show the automatically generated page

copy and paste the url to the required page

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.

Please go through the tutorial on Guidelines for recording and narration which is on this url

Audacity on Linux

Windows Movie Maker on Windows

www.spoken-tutorial.org

Some steps are better explained here.

http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/Dubbers_Checklist

Please go through the checklist

This will help you to self verify

Please send the tutorial to the spoken tutorial admin team

http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/Admin_Checklist_Dubbing

Resend it to the admin team again.

The spoken tutorial admin team then sends the tutorial for reviews.

The guidelines to translate

The procedure to upload and type the translated script on the mediawiki

The process of validation and Reviews

http://spoken-tutorial.org/wiki/index.php/Dubbing_Stages

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.