Documentaries: Voice-over Translation Algorithm

The object of this research is the documentary audiovisual translation. The subject of the study is the means of optimizing the voice-over translation of documentaries. The author examines the audiovisual translation, its specific features and the increased popularity at the present time. The features of voice-over translation and the reasons for its demand in Russia are precisely analyzed. Distinctive attention is focused on the specific features of the documentary audiovisual text, which cannot be translated without taking into consideration linguistic, psycho-emotional and audiovisual components. The documentary text is polycode by nature, which makes the translation process multifaceted. The purpose of the article is to develop an algorithm of actions by which the translator will be able to optimize the process of voice-over translation of audiovisual content, in particular, documentaries. To achieve this goal, general research methods and methods of linguistic: observation, comparison and description were applied. The result of the study was the systematization and algorithmization of the translator's actions in the process of translating audiovisual content such as documentaries. The scope of the results is wide, since the algorithm proposed in the article can be implemented in audiovisual translation by both practitioners and novice translators. The novelty of the research lies in the fact that for the first time an integrated approach to voiceover translation of documentaries was presented, which includes four stages: pre-translation analysis of the audiovisual text, analysis of the linguistic component, work with the psychoemotional component of the film and the stage of audiovisual synchronization. The conclusion of the article reflects the necessity to use a step-by-step approach in the process of transcoding the documentary audiovisual text from the original language into the recipient's language in order to optimize the translator's work and achieve high quality translation of a cinematic piece of art.