Subtitles and dubbing help viewers, but can also cause problems

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Roma director Alfonso CuarĂ³n. EPA-EFE/Mike Nelson

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“All the different forms of translation available offer opportunities to increase accessibility and support integration. The efforts by distributors to provide multiple options for viewers, besides making commercial sense, are a positive move both socially and culturally. But sensitivity, rather than purely commercial reasons, must be at the heart of the process. Otherwise all their efforts risk getting lost in translation.”

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David Orrego-Carmona
Assistant professor in translation

My research interests include translation technologies, subtitling, non-professional translation and training.