The mutable-team subcorpus is part of the MUTABLE corpus, which entails video recordings of the work processes related to audio description as well as of the interaction between sighted and blind participants. The mutable-team subcorpus consists of appr. 25 h of video of authentic teamwork and the respective orthographic transcriptions of the conversations. The work setting is the translation process in which a team of blind and sighted participants draft and rehearse an audio description script. The recorded teams consist of either two (one blind + one sighted) or three (1 blind + 2 sighted) participants. The source material that is being audio described are feature films (drama, action) or television programs (life style or “Christmas calendar”). The languages spoken are either Finnish or German (the Austrian or the Standard variant). The videos have been recorded in Austria, Finland and Germany in 2016-2017. The corpus was collected in the research project MUTABLE – Multimodal Translation with the Blind, funded by Academy of Finland. More information on the project: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/audiodescription/

2019