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Matamala, Anna

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“…Con el fin de manipular una voz neutra, se partió de las voces que habían sido elegidas como neutras en el estudio de Machuca, Matamala & Ríos (2020b), en el que se utilizó un subcorpus compuesto por 10 audiodescriptores profesionales del español, extraído del corpus Visuals Into Words (VIW) (Matamala, 2019), para analizar los valores medios de F0 (Hz), de amplitud (dB) y de duración (ms) de las voces de los audiodescriptores, parámetros acústicos que han permitido a los autores caracterizar tales voces, cinco femeninas y cinco masculinas. Después, se seleccionaron las tres voces, tanto del grupo de los hombres como del de las mujeres, que tuvieran más diferencia entre ellos a partir de los valores de los rasgos prosódicos (tono, volumen y velocidad de habla) considerando el valor medio de todos los hablantes de cada sexo.…”

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Voces neutras y alteración tonal

Fernández Alonso,

Machuca,

Matamala

2024

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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Algunas guías recomiendan que la locución en la audiodescripción sea neutra (por ejemplo, AENOR, 2005). Sin embargo, hay pocas investigaciones que aborden qué es una voz neutra desde un punto de vista prosódico. Este artículo presenta los resultados de una prueba de percepción en español en la que se manipula el tono de voz de un hablante con el objetivo de observar si deja de percibirse esa voz como neutra, tal como se había considerado en estudios previos. En el experimento, en el que participan 26 personas con conocimientos de audiodescripción y 29 sin conocimientos, también se pregunta a los participantes cómo definirían una “voz neutra”. Ninguno de los participantes presentaba discapacidad visual. Los resultados muestran que las definiciones de voz neutra pueden clasificarse en 10 categorías. También indican que las voces graves se consideran más neutras que las agudas, si bien los participantes siguen identificando como voz neutra la voz original en la que no se ha modificado el tono.

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Voces neutras y alteración tonal

Fernández Alonso,

Machuca,

Matamala

2024

Círc. lingüíst. apl. comun.

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“…To better understand this connection, we must first turn to Jakobson (1959), who made a distinction between intralingual translation, interlingual translation, and intersemiotic translation (the translation of verbal signs into a nonverbal sign system). Consequently, many scholars have linked the concept of intersemiotic translation to AD (Matamala, 2019;Taylor, 2020), although following the inverse order: AD translates from a nonverbal sign system into a verbal sign system.…”

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“…Apart from the semiotic nature of AD, a connection between multimodality and AD can also be made: "multimodality can be described as a defining feature of AVT, but in the cases of SDH and AD this is all the clearer" (Taylor, 2020, p. 84). In fact, some authors have already explored the association between multimodality and AD, such as Braun (2011), Reviers (2018), andMatamala (2019). In…”

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Multimodal Analysis as a Way to Operationalise Objectivity in Audio Description

Romero Muñoz

2023

JAT

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Objectivity is a constant recommendation in audio description (AD) guidelines. However, some scholars have pointed to the advantages of a more subjective, creative, or narrative rendition. In this paper, we seek to determine to what extent subjectivity and objectivity coexist in Spanish filmic AD. In order to fulfil our aim, we operationalised objectivity by means of multimodal analysis based on Chaume’s (2004) classification of meaning codes. To operationalise objectivity through multimodality, we employed a qualitative content analysis and examined whether visual and acoustic information was rendered objectively or subjectively in a corpus of four Spanish AD scripts from Netflix. Our results show, firstly, that objectivity and subjectivity interact in the mobility, iconographic, and editing codes. Moreover, dissimilarities arise in the way these meaning codes are described in Spanish: movement is mainly described objectively, whereas iconography and editing are rendered either subjectively or objectively. In conclusion, we can state that neither is objectivity systematically applied in our AD scripts, nor is a purely narrative AD to be found, but rather a mixture of both coexists. Furthermore, this coexistence seems unequal, since different tendencies can be identified in the way that movement, editing, and iconography are described. Lay summary Audio description is an oral narration aimed at blind people that provides information about what is going on in an audiovisual product. The traditional view has been to inform objectively about the audio description contents, but some scholars support more subjective or creative alternatives. This papers seeks to observe whether audio description actually contains both subjective and objective elements. In order to find these elements, we used multimodality, a kind of analysis that shows how visual and acoustic information interact to create meaning. In this analysis we exposed instances of objective and subjective elements in a group of Spanish audio descriptions from Netflix. Our results show that there are objective and subjective elements when informing about movement, symbols, or spatio-temporal changes. However, these elements are not balanced, since movement is mainly described objectively, whereas symbols and spatio-temporal changes are described either subjectively or objectively. In conclusion, we can state that current audio description seems to be the result of a mixture of subjective and objective elements.

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Research on Audiovisual Translation and Reception at Home and Abroad Based on CiteSpace

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2023

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The VIW project

Cited by 4 publications

References 24 publications

Voces neutras y alteración tonal

Voces neutras y alteración tonal

Multimodal Analysis as a Way to Operationalise Objectivity in Audio Description

Research on Audiovisual Translation and Reception at Home and Abroad Based on CiteSpace

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