Translator: Leonardo Silva Reviewer: Cristina Bufi-Pöcksteiner
I believe that many people here know the TED slogan,
which is “Ideas Deserving to Be Disclosed,”
but an important factor is:
we have to think that these ideas need to be understood
by those people to whom they are being disclosed.
Nowadays, in the world, there are more than 7 billion people.
Of these 7 billion people, only 13% speak English.
As the TED talks, for the most part, are spoken in English …
and, for each person in the world who speaks English,
there are seven others who do not speak English,
that is, we are depriving these seven people of understanding these ideas,
to be inspired by these ideas,
just because they do not understand the language being spoken.
And when we speak Portuguese,
like all the lectures we have seen here today,
the situation is even worse.
For every person who speaks Portuguese,
there are 28 other people who do not speak Portuguese in the world.
So, to try to minimize this problem a little,
was the project of the TED Translators.
TED Translators is a group of people worldwide,
a group of volunteers,
who devotes a little of his own time
to translate these lectures that so inspire,
to their local languages.
The project began in 2009,
from the initiative of these people
who wanted to bring the most famous, well-known TED lectures,
their local communities.
It started with only 300 translations, in 40 different languages.
In 2012, after a few years that the project had already begun,
he also included TEDx and TED-Ed lectures.
At this point, the project came to serve as a double track.
Instead of just taking the ideas in English to the rest of the world,
also started to bring all the ideas of TEDx
who were spoken in languages other than English
to the world that speaks English too.
Nowadays, in 2016,
the project already translates into more than 100 different languages,
counts on the collaboration of 25 thousand volunteers,
in 155 countries around the world,
and last month we surpassed the mark of 100,000 published translations.
Speaking a little more specifically from Brazil,
in Brazil, we have more than 900 volunteers
helping to translate lectures
and we have more than 4,5 thousand published translations,
and this puts us as the second largest language community
within the project.
And, lately, the translators’ group of the translation project
has been working together with several TEDx events
to try to narrow the relations between translators and TEDx
and also try to promote the interaction of translators among themselves.
Here are some meetings that took place at events in São Paulo.
The role of the translator is very important to TEDx
to assist in the dissemination of TEDx lectures.
Also because the TED itself opens space on its official website
for the dissemination of lectures that are not given in English.
But before that, the lectures have to be transcribed and translated into English.
So that’s where the translator comes in as well.
And it is also important to say that all these volunteers …
they do not always have a translation or subtitling background.
Not everyone has previous experience.
So it is not necessary to know anything about translation or subtitling
to be part of this group.
So, anyone who wants to participate,
just go to the TED website and click on “Participate”.
Besides, a lot of people do not speak English, so …
That does not rule out that you also help because, as I said earlier,
all lectures, before translated, they must be transcribed.
The volunteer must write
what the speaker is saying in the original language.
And for that, it’s enough to know how to speak Portuguese,
if the lecture is being given in Portuguese.
I personally am part of the project just over four years ago,
I’ve been a coordinator for just over three years.
and I can say that it is a fantastic experience.
It is very worthwhile because in addition to knowing that you are helping a good cause,
you have contact with all these inspiring ideas
and also provides you meet amazing people,
who are the volunteer translators.
Thank you.
(Applause)
I believe that many people here know the TED slogan,
which is “Ideas Deserving to Be Disclosed,”
but an important factor is:
we have to think that these ideas need to be understood
by those people to whom they are being disclosed.
Nowadays, in the world, there are more than 7 billion people.
Of these 7 billion people, only 13% speak English.
As the TED talks, for the most part, are spoken in English …
and, for each person in the world who speaks English,
there are seven others who do not speak English,
that is, we are depriving these seven people of understanding these ideas,
to be inspired by these ideas,
just because they do not understand the language being spoken.
And when we speak Portuguese,
like all the lectures we have seen here today,
the situation is even worse.
For every person who speaks Portuguese,
there are 28 other people who do not speak Portuguese in the world.
So, to try to minimize this problem a little,
was the project of the TED Translators.
TED Translators is a group of people worldwide,
a group of volunteers,
who devotes a little of his own time
to translate these lectures that so inspire,
to their local languages.
The project began in 2009,
from the initiative of these people
who wanted to bring the most famous, well-known TED lectures,
their local communities.
It started with only 300 translations, in 40 different languages.
In 2012, after a few years that the project had already begun,
he also included TEDx and TED-Ed lectures.
At this point, the project came to serve as a double track.
Instead of just taking the ideas in English to the rest of the world,
also started to bring all the ideas of TEDx
who were spoken in languages other than English
to the world that speaks English too.
Nowadays, in 2016,
the project already translates into more than 100 different languages,
counts on the collaboration of 25 thousand volunteers,
in 155 countries around the world,
and last month we surpassed the mark of 100,000 published translations.
Speaking a little more specifically from Brazil,
in Brazil, we have more than 900 volunteers
helping to translate lectures
and we have more than 4,5 thousand published translations,
and this puts us as the second largest language community
within the project.
And, lately, the translators’ group of the translation project
has been working together with several TEDx events
to try to narrow the relations between translators and TEDx
and also try to promote the interaction of translators among themselves.
Here are some meetings that took place at events in São Paulo.
The role of the translator is very important to TEDx
to assist in the dissemination of TEDx lectures.
Also because the TED itself opens space on its official website
for the dissemination of lectures that are not given in English.
But before that, the lectures have to be transcribed and translated into English.
So that’s where the translator comes in as well.
And it is also important to say that all these volunteers …
they do not always have a translation or subtitling background.
Not everyone has previous experience.
So it is not necessary to know anything about translation or subtitling
to be part of this group.
So, anyone who wants to participate,
just go to the TED website and click on “Participate”.
Besides, a lot of people do not speak English, so …
That does not rule out that you also help because, as I said earlier,
all lectures, before translated, they must be transcribed.
The volunteer must write
what the speaker is saying in the original language.
And for that, it’s enough to know how to speak Portuguese,
if the lecture is being given in Portuguese.
I personally am part of the project just over four years ago,
I’ve been a coordinator for just over three years.
and I can say that it is a fantastic experience.
It is very worthwhile because in addition to knowing that you are helping a good cause,
you have contact with all these inspiring ideas
and also provides you meet amazing people,
who are the volunteer translators.
Thank you.
(Applause)
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