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TED Translators are volunteers who subtitle TED Talks, and enable the inspiring ideas in them to crisscross languages and borders.
Volunteer Bob Prottas shares why he transcribes TEDx talks, making them available for translation into 100+ languages.
Meet some of the TED Translators who attended TEDActive 2015 and learn about their conference experience in this mini documentary!
As a TEDx organizer, how can you turn your audience into active participants, strengthen your local TEDx community, and make your event’s ideas accessible? TEDxMadrid's Antonella Broglia and Javi Garriz figured out the solution: host a transcription marathon!
A true dancer at heart, Gustavo Rocha knows how to take the floor — and teach fresh moves in six languages. Gustavo advocates to improve public education in his home country, Brazil. Naturally, he’s a driving force behind translating TED Talks into Brazilian Portuguese, and advancing his language community.
Asqat Yerkimbay translates TED Talks into Kazakh to prove his native language can express today's big ideas. Through his NGO and a weekly gathering called Chay-Fi (tea + wifi), Asqat brings together volunteers who are helping to
increase the use of Kazakh — online and offline.
Watch the story of Shadia Ramsahye, a Mauritian-born digital media student in Paris who translates TED Talks into French and Urdu.
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21,269 translators
92,776 translations
Translator news
Can I help translate TEDx Talks if I only speak English? Yes. Meet Camille, an English language coordinator
Camille Martinez is a native English speaker who’s fluent in Spanish. In her career, she’s run a language school, worked in medical translation and interpreting, and even start...
40 brilliant idioms that simply can’t be translated literally
What does it mean to “have tomatoes on your eyes?” Find out below… It’s a piece of cake. You can’t put lipstick on a pig. Why add fuel to the fire? Idioms are those phrases th...Help us translate!
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