‘Multimedia Localization’ Archives
Youtube Subtitle Translation
Youtube recently combined automatic translation with its automatic captioning feature. Automatic voice recognition technology is not 100 percent accurate. So, when that inaccurate technology is combined with inaccurate machine translation, you may sometimes see laughable errors much like those that result from playing the telephone game (also [...]
Kill the Russians? | Japanese Video Game Localization Error
A few months ago, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was released and began setting numerous world records for video game sales. Unfortunately, the game also received negative publicity for including some frustrating mistranslations. At the center of the issues is the "No Russian" scene, in which Vladimir Makarov is supposed to tell the player [...]
