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Editing - do you know on average the editing output per day ?
Thread poster: Julie FOLTZ
Julie FOLTZ
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May 13, 2005

Do you know on average the editing output per day ?

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Evert DELOOF-SYS
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1000 words per hour May 13, 2005

would be a good average for general subject matters, provided the translation is of acceptable quality.

Specialised material may take a lot longer.
 
Tsu Dho Nimh
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Editing what? May 13, 2005

That's like asking the average distance a traveller can go on a bicycle per day ... there's Lance Armstrong and there's me.

I can do 10-15 pages an hour if the text is moderately well-written and the subject matter is familiar. That slows to a page or less an hour if I have to research the subject, ask the author, and clean up convoluted and ungrammatical text.
 
Nicolette Ri (X)
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Agree with this May 13, 2005

Evert DELOOF-SYS wrote:

would be a good average for general subject matters, provided the translation is of acceptable quality.

Specialised material may take a lot longer.

for translation. Sometimes it takes more time, sometimes less. In fact it takes often one-third of the time one needs for translation.

In the printing industry, editors count 10,000 signs per hour for proofreading of printed articles, books, etc. (only correction of printing mistakes and punctuation). This corresponds to about 1800 words per hour, depending on the language.
 
Jeff Allen
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translation and editing speeds May 13, 2005

go to my surveys page:
http://www.geocities.com/jeffallenpubs/surveys.htm
and go to the entry on Translation speed and content management.
see in that article if I mentioned the averages found on editing speed.
If I didn't provide it in there, I can dig up the averages of the stats received and post that.
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go to my surveys page:
http://www.geocities.com/jeffallenpubs/surveys.htm
and go to the entry on Translation speed and content management.
see in that article if I mentioned the averages found on editing speed.
If I didn't provide it in there, I can dig up the averages of the stats received and post that.

Jeff
http://www.geocities.com/jeffallenpubs/ ▲ Collapse
 
Parrot
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Working in conferences/conventions May 13, 2005

and assuming recruitment has done its job of screening translators, the editors are expected to output 1,200/hour (calculate 6 productive hours/day). That's as far as time-and-motion has it.
 
Mikhail Kropotov
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Could you clarify something please? May 18, 2005

Are you talking about proofing or editing? The speed seems a bit too high for me, but maybe I am thinking of something different from the rest of you guys.
 
Julie FOLTZ
Julie FOLTZ
France
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Talking of proofreading a translation job May 18, 2005

Thanks all of you for these information and articles.
Nice and formative to see how other people work in our solitary job !
 
Jeff Allen
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translation and editing speeds are separated Jul 14, 2006

Jeff Allen wrote:

go to my surveys page:
http://www.geocities.com/jeffallenpubs/surveys.htm
and go to the entry on Translation speed and content management.
see in that article if I mentioned the averages found on editing speed.
If I didn't provide it in there, I can dig up the averages of the stats received and post that.

Mikhail Kropotov wrote:

Are you talking about proofing or editing? The speed seems a bit too high for me, but maybe I am thinking of something different from the rest of you guys.


I made a distinction between translation speed and editing/proofing speed in the survey article mentioned above. Different statistics are presented.

Jeff
http://www.geocities.com/jeffallenpubs/
 


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