{"id":217912,"date":"2024-03-28T10:59:15","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T10:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/lost-in-machine-translation-eurozine\/"},"modified":"2025-06-25T17:19:47","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T17:19:47","slug":"lost-in-machine-translation-eurozine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigandigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/28\/lost-in-machine-translation-eurozine\/","title":{"rendered":"Lost in machine translation | Eurozine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"main-text\">\n<p><iframe title=\"Lost in machine translation: Standard Time talk show S1E16\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RuGvhpXjyAw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Despite popular belief, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ec.europa.eu\/eurostat\/statistics-explained\/index.php?title=Foreign_language_skills_statistics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the majority of Europeans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> do not have access to learning foreign languages, and being bi- or multilingual is <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeandatajournalism.eu\/cp_data_news\/in-europe-speaking-more-than-one-language-is-still-a-privilege\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">still a privilege for most<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With English becoming the most recent lingua franca, cutting back on the EU\u2019s multilingualism and hasty technologization pose a double threat for professional translators. Automated translation and voice detection promise to break language barriers, but sceptics are beginning to worry.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Though many warn of the effects of automation,\u00a0 the use of AI in publishing is already altering the way we work. In a lot of cases, workers no longer need to start a process from scratch and can instead rely on automation for certain tasks. For translators, this means saving time on taking a trip to the library and allowing AI tools to provide alternative translations or detect errors within them. Yet, it also runs the risk of being outsourced, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bureauworks.com\/blog\/why-you-should-outsource-translation-services-fc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">as many companies<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are pouring their resources into technologization, locally hiring professionals requires extra steps that most employers are not willing to take.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The European Commission has significantly increased its spending on translation technology in the past couple of years, consequently lowering recruitment levels. \u2018<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/translators-translation-european-union-eu-autmation-machine-learning-ai-artificial-intelligence-translators-jobs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Post-editing\u2019<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the jargon EU translators use for revising machine-translated texts, which has become a crucial part of the job. Much of the profession has been outsourced to a gig economy promising faster and more efficient methods, but leading to exploitation.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Albeit effective with simple and direct text, machine translation still has a lot to improve in accessibility, bias detection, and cultural understanding. Being able to read between the lines and decipher subtle meanings remain a valuable human skill. Due to this, the need for human translators is still in high demand \u2013 and with the profession adapting, this symbiosis is sure to further evolve.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Today\u2019s guests\u00a0<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><b>Gian-Paolo Accardo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an Italian-Dutch journalist. He is the executive editor of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/voxeurop.eu\/en\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">VoxEurop<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, co-founder and CEO of the VoxEurop European Co-operative Society, and editorial coordinator at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.europeandatajournalism.eu\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">European Data Journalism Network<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Alexander Baratsits<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is the founding president of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/de.cba.media\/?setlanguage=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cultural Broadcasting Archive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,\u00a0 which <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">offers the content of 28 radio stations in 50 languages. He is also a legal lead at Creative Commons Austria and editor of the book<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.baratsits.at\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> \u201cBuilding a European Digital Public Space, offering Strategies for taking back control from Big Tech platforms\u201c<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinter.org.uk\/\"><b>Frances Pinter<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is an Open Access (OA) advocate and the first woman to establish her own publishing company in the UK. She is the founder of <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.knowledgeunlatched.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Knowledge Unlatched<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/openclimatecampaign.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Open Climate Campaign<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/suprr.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Supporting Ukrainian Publishing Resilience and Recovery Organization<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SUPRR).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>We meet with them at the Cafe Disko of the <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bikesandrails.org\/wp\/\"><b>Bikes and Rails Housing Project<\/b><\/a><b>, Vienna.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<h3><b>Creative team<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">R\u00e9ka Kinga Papp, editor-in-chief<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Merve Akyel, art director<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Szilvia Pint\u00e9r, producer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zs\u00f3fia Gabriella Papp, executive producer<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salma Shaka, writer-editor <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Priyanka Hutschenreiter, project assistant<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Management<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hermann Riessner\u00a0 managing director<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judit Csik\u00f3s\u00a0 project manager<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Csilla Nagyn\u00e9 Kardos, office administration<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>OKTO Crew<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Senad Hergi\u0107 producer<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Leah Hochedlinger\u00a0 video recording<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marlena Stolze\u00a0 video recording<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Clemens Schmiedbauer video recording<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Richard Brusek sound recording<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Postproduction<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">N\u00f3ra Ruszkai, lead video editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Istv\u00e1n Nagy, video editor<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mil\u00e1n Golovics, conversation editor<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Art<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Victor Maria Lima, animation<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=tXDcB6ExCcA\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cornelia Frischauf, theme music<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><b>Captions and subtitles<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Julia Sobota\u00a0 closed captions, Polish and French subtitles; language versions management<br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farah Ayyash\u00a0 Arabic subtitles<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mia Bel\u00e9n Soriano\u00a0 Spanish subtitles<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Marta Ferdebar\u00a0 Croatian subtitles<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L\u00eddia N\u00e1dori\u00a0 German subtitles<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Katalin Szlukov\u00e9nyi\u00a0 Hungarian subtitles<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daniela Univazo\u00a0 German subtitles<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Olena Yermakova\u00a0 Ukrainian subtitles<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Aida Yermekbayeva\u00a0 Russian subtitles<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mars Zaslavsky\u00a0 Italian subtitles<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Sources<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/translators-translation-european-union-eu-autmation-machine-learning-ai-artificial-intelligence-translators-jobs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who killed the EU\u2019s translators?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Gregorio Sorgi and Federica de Sario, Politico.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.intogreat.com.au\/the-ethos-on-outsourcing-and-offshoring-a-look-at-labour-standards\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Ethos on Outsourcing and Offshoring: A Look at Labour Standards<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Intogreat.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bureauworks.com\/blog\/why-you-should-outsource-translation-services-fc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Why You Should Outsource Translation Services<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Gabriel Fairman, Bureau Works.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/future-translation-how-ai-changing-game-thibault-carrier#:~:text=Introduction%20to%20AI%20and%20Translation&amp;text=AI%20has%20a%20significant%20role,aspects%20of%20the%20translation%20process.\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Future of Translation: How AI is Changing the Game<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Thibault Carrier, Linkedin.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ititranslates.com\/blog\/will-ai-replace-human-translators\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will AI Replace Human Translators?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Toni Andrews, itit translates.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rws.com\/blog\/will-ai-translation-technology-replace-translators\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Will AI translation technology replace translators?<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by Maria Schnell, RWS.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Disclosure<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This talk show is a Display Europe production: a ground-breaking media platform anchored in public values.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This programme is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union and the European Cultural Foundation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Importantly, the views and opinions expressed here are those of the authors and speakers only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). 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