The Devil is in the Details: Chinese Subtitles in Camtasia

Meghan Trainor — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 12:19:55 -0400

We've spent a lot of time thinking about the larger issues of localization -- cultural bias toward particular symbols or colors, getting the right faces for the photos, avoiding idiomatic phrases that don't make sense when translated. But the most basic technical issues can be just as important when localizing text.

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Media Localization Round Table - Seattle

Meghan Trainor — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:10:04 -0400

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Media Localization Round Table - Seattle
Wednesday, June 4, 2008

Following on the heels of Last month's media localization roundtable at the Learning Worlds office in New York we'd like to continue the discussion with people in the Seattle area. How do you make multimedia content accessible, understandable and appropriate to a multitude of local audiences in an increasingly global marketplace?

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Comment on Node ant

Meghan Trainor — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:57:37 -0400

Thanks for your comment Anastacio. I've written a post today about some of the term issues you brought up. Please do keep me posted on the upcoming forum.

Navigational Phrases, Loan Words & Technical Terms in L10n

Meghan Trainor — Mon, 19 May 2008 18:21:46 -0400

Many
of the projects I produce at Learning Worlds are not only created with
multimedia technology tools, but they are about technology, and some
include very technical or industry specific terms. In addition there
is often quite a lot of interactive or navigational text to keep track
of during production. In short there are three pesky word sets that it
helps to keep track of during the localization (or L10n) process:
Navigational Phrases, Loan Words & Technical Terms.

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Thinking about L10n

Meghan Trainor — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:24:20 -0400

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