[KineJapan] Vicki Fan Subbing Site

Frederick, Sarah sfred at bu.edu
Tue Feb 23 21:28:31 EST 2016


I have not looked recently but it was an interesting site last time I looked. At the Kyoto Consortium when I taught a class on translation some years ago, I gave an assignment for students to try doing a certain amount of subtitling on this site and then write about it. It was an easy way for undergraduates to get a practical sense of what it is like to do that work, and good listening practice as well.

Sarah Frederick
Associate Professor of Japanese
Dept. Modern Languages
   and Comparative Literature
Boston University


On Feb 23, 2016, at 8:45 PM, Markus Nornes <amnornes at umich.edu<mailto:amnornes at umich.edu>> wrote:

Thanks to an online essay by Tessa Dwyer, one of the scholars writing about subtitling, I discovered the fascinating website Viki. This was a fan-created website created at Stanford and Harvard, based in Singapore, that crowd-sourced subtitling of Asian films and TV. Tessa explains:

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.academia.edu_21900320_Welcome-5Fto-5FViki-5FFansubbing-5Fand-5FMedia-5FChange-3Fauto-3Dview-26campaign-3Dweekly-5Fdigest&d=CwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=_GN5_kYyZ59DTRapdXtCiRAShA9sXP4yn-uziBxCcgE&s=f6DG-LF5vkYxexdvtTK4j-yWMgSv9kHpOgl8-3G7KG4&e= 

They seem to have borrowed the model used by the major Chinese fan subbing organizations, where you have leaders at the top of teams that manage various steps in the subtitling process. But anyone can join as a subtitler, contributing to spotting, or subtitling or quality control. It's pretty fascinating.

A couple years ago Rakuten bought the site out for a reported $200 million or more. The business model uses ads, which can be turned off if you subscribe. And it looks like you get the subscription if you start subtitling.

It has more Korean and Chinese-language content than anything else, and mainly the popular stuff. Definitely worth checking out, and keeping an eye on.

https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.viki.com&d=CwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=_GN5_kYyZ59DTRapdXtCiRAShA9sXP4yn-uziBxCcgE&s=rbV64CN7ioPCtZRkuCTAgMdQ51_GsTUnldwMOGGO11M&e= <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.viki.com_&d=CwIFAg&c=clK7kQUTWtAVEOVIgvi0NU5BOUHhpN0H8p7CSfnc_gI&r=e7qMG9KFq7WNnPQWULWHJA&m=_GN5_kYyZ59DTRapdXtCiRAShA9sXP4yn-uziBxCcgE&s=ZYGwppM2iAB4WrKBkTHsBl53i_uOzffIjIWE3n1yZ20&e= >

Markus
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