Translating Tom's TED Talk
Thursday, April 30, 2009 at 2:49AM Tom got an email from TED. Here's the lead:
In just a few weeks time, we'll launch the TED Open Translation Project, which will allow every talk on TED.com to be translated into any language, by volunteers worldwide. We're completely thrilled by the potential of this project to spread your talk -- and ideas -- beyond the English-speaking world.
At launch, the site will include more than 250 translations, representing at least 30 languages, completed by more than 100 volunteers translators. Once the program goes live, we expect those numbers to quickly swell. So before we launch, we wanted to give you an opportunity to translate your own talk, if that's of interest.
* If you're bilingual, we'd love you to translate your own talk. (You're the best person for the job).
* If you have multi-lingual colleagues or students; friends or family - You might want to ask them to translate your talk. Their knowledge of -- and investment in -- your work make them ideal candidates, even if they have no formal translation skills.
Our system makes it relatively simple to translate a talk; we provide an approved English transcript, a simple online interface for line-by-line translation, and tips for a quality translation.
Exciting opportunity here. If you're interested in translating Tom's TED talk into another language, email me for more details.
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