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LiveTextAccess.
Training for real-time intralingual subtitlers.
This is Unit 1. Understanding accessibility.
Element 3. Embedding accessibility in working environments.
In this video lecture,
we want to share a short video from Høreforeningen,
the Danish association of Hard of Hearing people.
The video explains how accessibility is provided
in online settings with real-time subtitles.
My name is Piero Cavallo
from the Internationale Hochschule SDI München, in Germany.
I have prepared this video lecture
in collaboration with Rocío Bernabé Caro, also from SDI München,
and the European Federation of Hard of Hearing, in short, EFHOH.
On completion of the training sequence,
you will be able to advise customers about how to best set up
an accessible real-time working environment
for persons with hearing loss
in the trained working contexts and settings.
To achieve that,
we will show testimonials and interviews of professionals.
The agenda is very short.
First, I will give you some general information about the video,
before showing it.
Finally, we will end this video lecture with a summary.
First of all,
let me give you some information before watching the video.
The video you are about to watch has Danish audio
and has English subtitles.
The video collects the testimonials of Mette Lundgaard,
a web and communication assistant from Høreforeningen,
and of end-users
who have used real-time subtitles in different online settings.
For example, in school and in working environments.
We would like to thank them
for providing us with the necessary rights.
Ok, let’s watch the video now!
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[Mette] In Denmark, there are around 800,000 people
with varying types of hearing loss (HL).
When you have an HL, it may be difficult
to follow online meetings or virtual events
at the same level as those with a typical hearing.
This is why the Danish Association of Hard of Hearing
now offers remote speech-to-text (STT) for online meetings.
This is how it works:
a speech-to-text Interpreter (STTI) will participate in the online event.
The STTI shares his screen with the other participants
who will then be able to follow the STT on the screen.
Hi there and welcome to this meeting. Are you all able to see the STT?
[Man] For me, it is a tremendous help
with the STT that I kind of get it twice.
So if I have misheard something, I can look to the text
and have it repeated that way once more.
[Mette] It is of great importance, that all can participate
in the community of online meetings and virtual events.
It may be a social meeting,
but it could also be a professional meeting,
or meetings at your work, and the STT helps to ensure this.
[Woman 1] It is important for me to have remote STT at my job,
because I participate in meetings,
where I need to feel assured that I follow what is being said.
If I start getting things wrong too much,
then I cannot do my job well enough.
[Mette] Young people in education, often experience their lectures
are carried out online.
And we know, they really benefit from the remote STT.
[Woman 2] If I do not hear everything said in the forum,
then I can look down to my computer and read what they are talking about.
In that respect, it is really important for me to use the remote STT
to have equal terms with all others in the educational settings.
[Mette] All that a participant needs in an online meeting is
that you either have a computer with a camera and sound,
or an iPad, a tablet, or a smartphone.
[Man] I am very positive
about how the online meetings are carried out,
and I recommend it to everyone I meet.
[Woman 1] Even if you kind of think, "No, I am not really a user of STT",
then I recommend to try it out.
I think you will experience your shoulders come down
and you can relax a bit more, which gives you more energy
also after the meeting.
[Mette] Our experience is that it is possible to establish
some stronger communities by meeting online this way.
If you like to know more about remote STT,
you can visit the association's website where you will find more information.
You can also call us on the phone,
and we can explain more about how it works.
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The summary.
To briefly sum up,
we can say that real-time subtitles
really help persons with Hearing Loss to follow online events in an equal way.
These events can be working meetings, cultural events, lectures, etc.
We have also seen that it is easy to get real-time subtitles.
All you need is a computer, or a tablet, or a mobile phone.
Exercises.
The exercises for this video lecture are in the Trainer’s Guide
and the PowerPoint file.
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LTA - LiveTextAccess.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
SDI - Internationale Hochschule.
Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici.
2DFDigital.
The European Federation of Hard of Hearing People - EFHOH.
VELOTYPE.
SUB-TI ACCESS.
European Certification and Qualification Association - ECQA.
Co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union.
Erasmus+ Project:
2018-1-DE01-KA203-004218.
The information and views set on this presentation
are those of the authors
and do not necessarily reflect the official opinion
of the European Union.
Neither the European Union institutions and bodies
nor any person acting on their behalf
may be held responsible for the use
which may be made of the information contained here.