that's a great article. I have already known of the split-convert-encode approach when they get new video content (search for "Netflix" and "aws" [amazon web services] to see how they use the cloud to do all of it).
But this interaction of humans into the process to get the correct cultural "funny" is interesting too. Perhaps I should watch Chelsea. side tidbit: I watched Corden's most recent Karaoke which features a Jonas brother. He spoke of his other brothers hit song (Cake by the Ocean) with band DNCE. He said the song name came from a conversation the DNCE brother had with a Swedish(?) person asking about "what's that expression you use? Cake by the Ocean" when he meant sex on the beach. So the song is about sex on the beach. On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 4:37 PM, Tom Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Bob Jersey <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Netflix has taken on the highly unusual tack of helping non-English users >> understand Handler's show, ostensibly as a precursor to improving the >> doing of the same for the majority of its content... Variety >> <http://variety.com/2016/digital/news/netflix-chelsea-encoding-ui-translation-1201776469/> >> (link) >> > > The point of the article isn't that Netflix is translating the show; they > do that for all their content. The point is that they have set up a system > to break up segments to separate files and get the files translated > simultaneously to have translated versions out in a short time. > > When I lived in Israel TV shows were subtitled into Hebrew and Arabic (and > later Russian) rather than being dubbed. So I improved my Hebrew reading > skills over the years by reading dialogue from Anglophone shows. And I > remember that translating slang, street talk, and figurative language was > extremely difficult as translating each word would not give the meaning of > a phrase. A good translator needs to have a good sense of dialect and idiom > of both languages. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
