Daniel Greene

Tag: English

  • Crowdsourcing to closed-caption videos with Amara

    Yesterday’s Hangout On Air on American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture is now a video on YouTube, and that video is being crowdsourced for subtitles at Amara. If you’ve never heard of Amara (I hadn’t until yesterday), it is a website dedicated to crowdsourcing the captioning of videos. How it works is that anyone…

  • American Sign Language (ASL) Hangout On Air, Interpreted

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLqPIGIiZ_s I participated in a Google+ Hangout On Air about American Sign Language (ASL) and Deaf culture by interpreting for Dylan, a Deaf man who shared his perspectives. I interpreted consecutively so that people could watch Dylan without voice interference; I also interpreted consecutively rather than simultaneously with the aim of providing a more accurate…

  • Unanswered questions I’ve posted on Twitter

    I’ve posted some tweets lately with questions to the interpreting profession, but I’ve seen no replies. Maybe you can change that — reply to these tweets or leave a comment here. https://twitter.com/#!/TerpTrans/status/195039924087558144 https://twitter.com/#!/TerpTrans/status/197768904385376257 Oh, and another one just for fun (although I do take grammar very seriously). 😉 https://twitter.com/#!/danielgreene/status/194887475783663617

  • Originally posted on The Professional Interpreter: Dear Colleagues, We all have clients who at one time or another have asked us to translate materials that we know, or learn after reviewing them, are useless or irrelevant for our client’s objective. One time I was asked to translate a Mexican court file that was close to…

  • A sample video of English-ASL platform interpreting

    I’m posting this for anyone who is curious to watch an English-ASL interpreter at work on stage with a speaker. Dr. Johanna Blackley and the Honors Forum coordinator at Mesa Community College were kind enough to let me share this video my interpreting partner took of me with my phone. I asked my team to…