Audio/Visual Translation Services
The combined use or integration of several media, such as movies, music, CD-ROMs, lighting, the Internet, television, radio, print etc. for education or entertainment, for advertising or publicity is referred to as multimedia. This media is highly preferable to define applications and technologies that manipulate data, images, text, voice and full motion video objects. In this fast, technologically advanced world, multimedia plays a vital role in bringing the world closer.
Forms of Multimedia Translation
Importance of Multimedia & Audio/Visual Translation Services
Most translation service provider companies provide Multimedia & Audio/Visual Translation Services The interactive use of text, audio, video, still images, and graphics is converted in some way from one language to another, from analog form to digital form before they can be used in a computer application and can be understood by all. The delivery of information in multimedia in different formats as in text, graphics, films, animation, audio, video is made more comprehensive with the help of translation services.
Multimedia & Audio/Visual Translation is one of the most important changes that have taken place in recent years in the realms of communication and entertainment due to new technology and globalization. Translation services no longer restrict itself to the translation of purely linguistic elements because this would not reflect the true nature of many transfer processes. One of the consequences of these translation is that any form of text, video, audio is revised and classical forms of translation like word-for-word transcoding no longer cover what is now often described with the help of terms like as versioning , localization, or language management. Multimedia translation has a broad coverage.
Application Areas
Multimedia translation services are applied in
Dubbing
DVD
CBT and eLearning
Games
Flash movies
Interactive voice recognition
Voice overs etc.
Types of Multimedia & Audio/Visual Translation Services
Let us now know in details the Multimedia & Audio/Visual Translation Services under the following heads:
Film Translation Services
Voice Over & Dubbing Services
Captioning & Subtitling Services