Working with a dubbing script can be very tricky, especially when dealing with time-sensitive Japanese scripts. This is partially because the language consists of 3 writing systems: hiragana (e.g., “いろは”), katakana (e.g., “イロハ”), and kanji (e.g., “百花繚乱”). While each hiragana/katakana character represents a syllabary of this phonetic lettering system, kanji may contain one or more … Read more

Oh… wow. It feels just like yesterday (really!) that I founded this audio production studio in September of 2004 – twenty years ago. The idea of establishing this business of mine began growing at around early 2003, back while I was still employed at this technology-driven translation agency named GK Associates. One day, I proposed … Read more

สวัสดีครับ! สบายดีไหมครับ? We have been planning on shifting our operation base in Thailand. Although this plan is at a very embryonic stage (we don’t have a set place yet!), things can move fast, especially now that the COVID-19 pandemic hurdles are being resolved as we speak.

For years, I’ve been collaborating with several good French clients, and it’s been great!! 🙂 France is very well-known for its high-context culture; a whole bunch of intricate (yet often bombastically bold!) nuances is packed in a spoonful of short sentence… and unfortunately, those nuances are often lost in translation. Now, just imagine the amount … Read more

Austria, Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Colombia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mexico, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Singapore, Taiwan, The Netherlands, UAE, UK, Ukraine, and USA. These are the countries in which our client companies are located. Thank you very, very much! We look forward to another … Read more

October … Already?!?! Tempus fugit, for sure. I am about to sell my old house about 600+ kilometers west of where I live now. In the course of action I had truckloads of things to do … and now we only have less than 3 months to go until the year end. Phew!!! What a … Read more

We are going through several stages of hardware/software upgrades this year, and this is one of the most important one; microphone cable upgrades: All Canare L4E6S cables in the studio will be replaced by Mogami 2534.

So we don’t need to place this any longer. How did I not know?!? ↓↓↓:

Language is a living entity… and the Japanese language is no exception: 和語のアクセントの現況： https://www.nhk.or.jp/bunken/research/kotoba/pdf/20170301_7.pdf

Today, I bid farewell to my old package manager, “MacPorts“, and migrate/reinstall/reconfigure pretty much everything that had to do with development to Homebrew. Boy! That took me half of my day. This leap also took some considerable amount of courage for me, since I kept relying on MacPorts for almost two decades. So far, so … Read more