Crowdsourcing translations in 100+ languages
Written in 2010
The TED Open Translation Project is using volunteer translators to translate the 400+ TED Talks into more than 40 languages. TED worked for a year on this project, extending the dotSUB translation technology.
“TED’s mission is to spread good thinking globally, and so it’s high time we began reaching out to the 4.5 billion people on the planet who don’t speak English,” says TED Curator Chris Anderson.
-We’re excited to be using a bottom-up, open-source approach that will in time allow all our talks to be translated into all the world’s languages.”
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