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Multimedia Translation: The Future for Translators

According to Mayoral, shortly “even general translators will have to be able to use translation systems like subtitling, dubbing or voice-over and adjustment…

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Unlocking Creativity: Young Filmmakers Share Their Stories

During a number of workshops, children and young people were given the opportunity to make their own animated films. The messages these films contain have now…

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New Guidelines for Scientists on Media Communication

As part of a European Commission FP6 project (MESSENGER), new guidelines for scientists on how to communicate most effectively with the media have been…

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All-Student Run FM Radio Station Launches January 15

An initiative of Canterbury Youth and Student Media Ltd, a company established by the four funding bodies – University of Kent, Canterbury Christ Church…

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MPs Embrace Social Media to Engage Modern Audiences

Politics is one of those areas where the transformation of ‘the public’ from a single audience (in the form of television viewers and newspaper readers) to a…

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New Research: Emotional Ads Boost Audience Engagement

Dr Robert Heath, from the University of Bath’s School of Management, found that advertisements with high levels of emotional content enhanced how people felt…

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Mobile TV in the UK: Insights from the Oxford 3G Trial

Described as the “seventh mass media”, the popularity of Mobile TV in the UK is certain to increase with participants in the Oxford 3G/DVB-H trial reporting an…

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Further European success for Multimedia Technology & Design students

This is the second time Kent has celebrated success in the EUROPRIX TTA, with former student Liz Valentine winning the EUROPRIX Multimedia Top Talent Thesis…

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Medway Lecturer’s Antihero Composition Makes Elite List

Paul’s original piece, a 12-minute composition called Antihero, featuring piano and electro-acoustic sounds, was selected from more than six hundred entries in…

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Fraunhofer IIS Unveils Real-Time HD Video Encoder at IBC 2006

Together with content protection, complete DVB-H media player solutions and new audio coding technologies for surround and stereo audio, Fraunhofer IIS is one…

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University of York Students Create Feature Film Magic

Ainslie is one of five Electronics students from the University of York who were asked if they wanted to spend their summer holidays working on post-production…

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First Quantum Cryptographic Data Network Demonstrated

“The volume and type of sensitive information being transmitted over data networks continues to grow at a remarkable pace,” said Prem Kumar, professor of…

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iTunes Unveils Visual Jukebox Featuring Short Films

'Point Annihilation: Surf, Sex and Tattoos’ is a coming of age story about a young New Zealand surfer, is one of only fifteen films chosen by iTunes from…

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First-Class Movie Seats: Experience Cinema Like Never Before

Against the backdrop of an abandoned mine, the wind drives bales of dry tumbleweed across the seats of the movie theater. A thunderclap makes the audience…

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New Algorithm Enhances Mobile Data Retrieval Efficiency

With the computing technique, mobile devices can pick up data that may have been “missed” when first broadcast, thereby alleviating the wait for subsequent…

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Voice Biometrics: A New Tool in Crime Prevention

Dr Aladdin Ariyaeeinia at the University’s School of Electronic Communication & Electrical Engineering has been conducting research into voice biometrics…

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