The TED Open Translation Project brings TED Talks beyond the English-speaking world by offering subtitles, interactive transcripts and the ability for any talk to be translated by volunteers worldwide.The project was launched in May 2009 with 300 translations in 40 languages, and 200 volunteer translators. It is generously supported by a visionary sponsorship from Nokia. I am exciTED to know that my mother tongue (Tamil) is already a part of it. But, there are only 12 talks available in Tamil as of now.
Quality of Translation
To help ensure quality, an approved, professional English transcript for each talk will be generated. (This is the transcript upon which all translations are based.) Once the talk is translated, every translation is required to be reviewed by a second fluent speaker before publishing it on TED. TED controls the final "publish" button. All translators and reviewers are credited by name for their work.
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