I built a free checker for SRT files: https://captionspec.com

If you translate or adapt subtitles into English for Netflix, it lists every caption that's over the limits: reading speed (20 cps adult, 17 children's), 42 characters per line, 2 lines, duration, and gaps. It shows the measured value for each one, so you can see which captions need condensing.

It runs in your browser (the file is never uploaded), it's free, and there's no sign-up. Not affiliated with Netflix.

It's English only for now. Which target languages would be most useful to add next?,

Hello, I am a linguistics and translation undergrad and I am thinking of writing my thesis about Interpretation. For that, I need material to analyse. Does anyone know, where I can get recordings of interpreters doing their work??? I am Interested in both consecutive and simultaneous translations.

My language pair is EN-RU, accordingly, translation records for this language pair are in higher priority. But mainly I'm just interested if it's even possible to find enough material online for a thesis, are there any websites with such recordings??

Pls help 🙏

I am sitting the DipTrans next year. If you’ve done the exam what did you think? What were the challenges and did you pass or resit?

I use Reddit's automatic translation not because I need it, but because it's the automatic setting in the app. And I often find myself switching to the original language to read posts and comments because the automatic translation is sometimes inaccurate/of very poor quality.

I double checked the original language here because I was surprised by the number of what seemed to be troll responses below a video about a Russian missile attack. They were all saying the same thing, "Vive la Russie." I was more than a little surprised to find that all the comments actually said, "Fuck Russia."

So, I am an inexperienced translator who has never worked with any publishing house before, so I don't know how translators end up working on books they are interested in. I am basically asking because I have to translate a text of more than 100 pages to graduate from university. It's certainly unpaid, so I guess I have the freedom to choose something I am eager to translate; I am doing that for myself first and foremost since the university's instructions are not restrictive. But at the same time, I would like to see my work published or at least read by many people. So, I wonder if publishing houses receive offers from translators directly or if translators can market themselves through their work.