The symposium will be organised in partnership with @subtleuk.bsky.social!

Exciting SubComm news! We will be hosting the first ever SubComm Symposium next February, because we want to provide a free forum for researchers to share their work with practitioners. Submit your abstracts by 28 Nov, and join us at the symposium on 27 Feb! More information: subcomm.co.uk/events/

Happy International Translation Day! We are looking forward to continuing the celebration with our subtitle chat tomorrow. #ITD2025

Happy Friday! We wrote a blog post to share some updates from the past few months and to remind you of the upcoming Subtitle Chat. If you'd like to read about our recent publications and past and future SubComm activities, click below!

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Subtitle Chats: Share your story An online networking event for academics, practitioners, and anyone else interested in subtitling.

Subtitle Chats are back! If you are an academic, professional or student interested in subtitling, please join us (on Zoom) on 1 October at 3pm UK/Irish time. Our theme is Share Your Story, and we look forward to hearing about your career paths. Register here: events.humanitix.com/subtitle-cha...

Speaker next to a banner for the FIT World Congress 2025. In the background, there is a slide that says: "Data flattens. It distorts. And it quietly erases the richness of human life."

Dorothea Baur at the FIT World Congress. If you want to catch more conversations about AI, language, translation and interpreting, you can still register for streaming access and also watch the recording of this keynote and the rest of the streamed content until Sunday. More info: fit2025.org

The full programme of the FIT World Congress has now been published, and to celebrate, you can register at a reduced rate until 27 July! I will be there to moderate a panel on audiovisual translation, and looking forward to seeing many interesting talks.

See you in Geneva!

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Here is a new article from me on usability and subtitling. I hope it's interesting to both researchers and practitioners, and if anyone is interested, I'd love to test the concepts in practice one day!

- Tiina

Come chat with us on 24 April!

What a great initiative by SUBTLE – the Subtitlers'​ Association - @subtleuk.bsky.social, and SubComm - @subcomm.bsky.social 🤩
Don’t miss out – join for an informal chat and a fantastic networking opportunity with fellow AVT practitioners and researchers! 🎤🎞️✨

We are very excited to team up with @subtleuk.bsky.social for a chat that aims to bring together AVT/accessibility academics and practitioners. Join us on 24 April to meet some nice people and exchange ideas about audiovisual translation and research!

Thank you for sharing our infographics, @ata-avd.bsky.social!

Hello everyone! If you missed our recent Subtitle Chat, you can now read a recap on our blog to find out what we talked about. Thank you to everyone who was there, and see you next time!

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We're excited to announce our new yearly initiative, SUBTLE's AVT Heroes of the Year! These people and efforts had a particularly positive impact on our industry in 2024. Thank you for your tireless work! It doesn't go unnoticed.

Read all about them in our blog (link in bio). (1/7)

#AVTHeroes

Thank you, @subtleuk.bsky.social! This is a huge honour for us, we are touched that our work is being noticed. It's been such a pleasure to work, and have fun, with all of you, and we hope there is much more to come this year. ❤️

Today's Subtitle Chat will start in about two hours, i.e. 1pm, UK time. The Zoom link should have gone out to everyone who has registered, but if you didn't receive it, or if you'd like to join the chat but haven't registered, contact us and you'll receive the link. See you soon!

Subtitle Chat 24 Jan 2025 Join us for a Subtitle Chat on 24 January

If you'd like to hear more about our study, you can still sign up for Friday's Subtitle Chat, where we will talk about this, as well as everyone else's experiences of professional collaborations: events.humanitix.com/subtitle-cha...

Investigating academic-practitioner collaboration in Audiovisual Translation Studies In audiovisual translation (AVT), there has been an increase in academic research that engages with practitioners, but there is still room for more progress. In this article, we explore the finding...

We are excited to share this new open access article where we explore avt practitioners' and researchers' views on collaborative research. Thank you to all the study participants, and to the SubComm community for inspiring us and helping us develop our ideas!

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Subtitle Chat 24 Jan 2025 Join us for a Subtitle Chat on 24 January

Also, don't miss your next opportunity to chat with other subtitlers and researchers next Friday, 24 Jan: events.humanitix.com/subtitle-cha... We are planning to discuss your best experiences of collaborations, and anything else you'd like to chat about.

Hello, Bluesky! We have arrived, and we hope to keep building this community of subtitling professionals and academics here. Please join us!