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Thread poster: Heinrich Pesch
Heinrich Pesch
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Mar 20, 2011

This was displayed when BBC World reported on Libya.
My feedback to BBC World:

'A translator's voice is never heard. What you mean is "voice of interpreter". Interpreters speak when interpreting speach, translators type when translating text.'
 
Nicole Schnell
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Dubbing Mar 20, 2011

As long as we are not talking about a live broadcast with an interpreter involved, I consider every translated word "my voice" because I wrote every word of the politician's / the CEO's / the scientist's speech or the newscaster's report. Even if the audio part was performed by a voice-over artist (who has to re-record parts in case I don't agree with his / her way to emphasize individual parts of a sentence), I consider the translation my voice.

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As long as we are not talking about a live broadcast with an interpreter involved, I consider every translated word "my voice" because I wrote every word of the politician's / the CEO's / the scientist's speech or the newscaster's report. Even if the audio part was performed by a voice-over artist (who has to re-record parts in case I don't agree with his / her way to emphasize individual parts of a sentence), I consider the translation my voice.

A transcript of the finished film / video can never contain: "interpreter's voice".

Interpreting is simply a different story. ▲ Collapse
 
Nicole Schnell
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Legal issue Mar 20, 2011

Should I ever be sued because of a translation error during such a broadcast - causing WWIII or a total crash of the stock market or something - I am the translator. Not the interpreter.
 
Heinrich Pesch
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No translation involved Mar 20, 2011

This was a telephone speech by Col Gaddafi where a woman's voice was interpreting simultaneously. Hardly G. knew himself what he would say a minute earlier, I would guess.
 
Nicole Schnell
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Aha! Mar 20, 2011

Heinrich Pesch wrote:

This was a telephone speech by Col Gaddafi where a woman's voice was interpreting simultaneously. Hardly G. knew himself what he would say a minute earlier, I would guess.


So it was the voice of a interpreter. In this particular case.
 
Aleksandar Gasic
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I do not have a slightest clue of what you said Apr 17, 2011

Nicole Schnell wrote:

As long as we are not talking about a live broadcast with an interpreter involved, I consider every translated word "my voice" because I wrote every word of the politician's / the CEO's / the scientist's speech or the newscaster's report. Even if the audio part was performed by a voice-over artist (who has to re-record parts in case I don't agree with his / her way to emphasize individual parts of a sentence), I consider the translation my voice.

A transcript of the finished film / video can never contain: "interpreter's voice".

Interpreting is simply a different story.


Would you please be so kind as to explain to me the difference b/w translator and interpreter then. I thought I knew, and I would have agreed with Heinrich, but after reading your post, I am... dumbfounded. What you consider is one thing, but you translate what you translate in writing, and whether or not it will be dubbed, end up as VO/SoT, be read aloud as speech or whatever, is, as you say, a different story.
 


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