How does the process work?

“TEDTalks in their source language English already enjoy more than 11m monthly views.  From TED’s homepage, anyone interested in translating has an easy sign up on both TED and dotSUB, then is shown a dashboard of over 400 possible language choices, when one is chosen it leads to thumbnails of all 450 videos available for subtitling.  By selecting their video of interest, an email is automatically sent to the TED project manager, which triggers a questionnaire to be sent to the translator requesting background info.  The project manager then gives those who have appropriate fluency and intentions permission to subtitle that video in that language.  They have 30 days to complete the subtitling.  Once they hit the ‘complete’ button, that video in that language then becomes available for a 2^nd native speaker of that language to select that video for review.  During the review process, only the initial translator and reviewer have access to that video in that language, and they have each others email addresses and are encouraged to work together.

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