Virtuosos V4+

Unforeseen events and changes on shooting days and during the accompanying programmes made it difficult for project managers to handle interpreting needs, while interpreters were faced with the challenges of busy schedules and hard-to-plan work. As for the translation tasks, due to the strict production schedule, we had to work with tight translation deadlines during the preparation and post-production phases. We had to create separate source files for each language from the multilingual transcripts, and then the Hungarian and English translations had to be combined in time-coded subtitle files.

We have created new working methods, established chains of notification, and set up online sharing platforms to organize joint work smoothly and efficiently, and to be able respond to ad-hoc interpreting needs. These were monitored by the project management team, who assigned the work to the interpreters according to their availability and workload, taking into account the challenges associated with each task. The two dedicated project managers maintained a clear division of labour with respect to translation and interpretation tasks. The efficiency of simultaneous interpreting was ensured by the use of Hungarian as a pivot language. The technical aspects of translation tasks were supported by the language engineering team, who automated the transcription of texts where the language and the audio quality made it possible, and they helped to meet tight deadlines by inserting language codes into the multilingual script and automating the generation of source files for each language.