The turn of audiovisual translation: New audiences and new technologies

Chaume, Frederic

doi:10.1075/ts.2.06cha

Article published In: Translation Spaces
Vol. 2 (2013) ► pp.105–123

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The turn of audiovisual translation

New audiences and new technologies

Frederic Chaume

Published online: 15 November 2013

https://doi.org/10.1075/ts.2.06cha

Audiovisual translation is an academic term that covers both well-established and new ground-breaking linguistic and semiotic transfers like dubbing, subtitling, surtitling, respeaking, audiosubtitling, voice-over, simultaneous interpreting at film festivals, free-commentary and goblin translation, subtitling for the deaf and the hard of hearing, audiodescription, fansubbing and fandubbing. This article presents a classification of audiovisual translation modes or types, and discusses some interesting developments in the audiovisual translation market at the beginning of this new century. Dubbing countries are moving towards subtitling, subtitling countries are beginning to dub, voice-over countries are shifting towards dubbing and subtitling, while voice-over is moving into dubbing and subtitling countries and gaining ground with younger audiences.

Keywords: fandubbing, fansubbing, audiodescription, audiovisual translation, dubbing, subtitling, voice-over

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