Freelance Text to Speech Translator for French (Canadian)
Posted 1 week ago by Deluxe
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Summary: The Freelance Text-to-Speech Translator for French (Canadian) role involves reviewing and rewriting machine-translated materials to ensure natural dialogue, readability, and lip sync accuracy. The position requires fluency in both English and French (Canadian), along with significant experience in translation, subtitling, and the dubbing industry. Candidates must possess cultural sensitivity and a strong grasp of linguistic nuances. The role is part of Deluxe's localization services for major media outlets.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review and rewrite machine-translated materials for naturalism and readability.
- Ensure on-screen lip sync accuracy without compromising original meaning.
- Utilize various machine-translation tools effectively.
- Manage terminology using a term-base.
- Engage in subtitling, editing, proofreading, and post-editing tasks.
- Communicate effectively in English for collaboration purposes.
Key Skills:
- Full professional proficiency in English (IRL Level 4).
- Native-level proficiency in French (Canadian) (IRL Level 5).
- 3-5 years of experience in translation and verbatim transcription.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in subtitling and editing.
- Experience in the dubbing industry (2 years).
- Excellent knowledge of grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
- Cultural sensitivity and understanding of dialects and accents.
- Experience with terminology management.
- Degree or professional training in relevant fields is a plus.
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Job Freelance Text-to-Speech Translators for French (Canadian) Position Summary Deluxe localization arm specializes in subtitling, closed captioning and translation services for major motion picture studios, film festivals, broadcast, streaming, and cable networks. We are currently seeking experienced English to French (Canadian) TTS freelance translators. The TTS Post-Editor reviews and re-writes machine-translated materials - both textual and audio - to achieve dialogue for naturalism, readability, and on-screen lip sync without sacrificing original meaning and intention.
Primary requirements:
- Speaker of the source language English to full professional proficiency (IRL Level 4)
- Speaker of the target language French (Canadian) to a native level (IRL Level 5)
- an excellent knowledge of grammar, spelling and punctuation and ongoing engagement with the language.
- Cultural sensitivity and extensive understanding of terminological/cultural nuances.
- Familiarity with and excellent comprehension of a wide variety of dialects and accents for the target language.
- Full professional proficiency of English for communication purposes (IRL Level 4).
- 3-5 years of experience in translation, verbatim transcription & post-edit.
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Subtitling, Review, editing, proofreading.
- Experience with various Machine-Translation Tools is a must.
- 2 years of experience in dubbing industry.
- Should have experience in Terminology Management using a term-base.
- clear understanding of the technical requirements and differences between dubbing and subtitling localization
Is a plus:
- Experience in editing, auditing, copywriting, reviewing, back-translation etc.
- Degree and/or professional training in Dubbing, subtitling and media OR audiovisual localization of any kind.
- Degree and/or professional training in languages, cultures, and translation.
- dubbing or text/video/audio editing.
Please note, only suitable applicants to this role will be contacted to take this further.