Description
Audio description (AD), by rendering images into words, helps visually impaired people to access audiovisual products. Since AD service greatly benefits the lives of visually impaired people, more audio describers are needed. AD training is important to ensure the quality of audio describers. Offering AD training in universities can provide students an opportunity to get early exposure to this field and raise their awareness of caring for people in need. Therefore, it not only serves the purpose of special technical training but also helps contribute to the whole-person education of the students. However, training programs of AD can rarely be found in universities. Only a few academic institutions in Western countries offer AD, the majority of which are taught at the postgraduate level as part of audiovisual translation modules or translation in general. Given both AD and interpreting are oral types of translation and the quality heavily depends on the delivery of the presenters, some scholars have started to notice the overlaps between AD and interpreting, especially in areas such as training and evaluation. The cross-fertilization between AD and interpreting is seen to be feasible: The training of delivery and other aspects (language ability, creative skill etc.) in AD can help enhance students’ interpreting skills; the facilities for interpreting training can serve the purpose of AD training. The Principal Investigator (PI) of this project has integrated AD training in interpreting classes. A two-week AD teaching module and post-training study have been conducted in the university interpreting program. Post-class surveys and interviews have been conducted to solicit students’ feedback to the training.The exhibition displays some research outputs of the TDG project (#6000744). It is expected that the research findings and practice of this project can significantly enrich and broaden the scope of interpreter training, AD Studies and tertiary-level education.
| Period | 6 Oct 2022 → 8 Oct 2022 |
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| Event type | Exhibition |
| Location | Hong Kong, Hong Kong, ChinaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | Local |