Hello and welcome back
the short video that you are about to see is an explanation about how terminology
is managed and implemented
in real-time intralingual subtitling practices
Carlo Eugeni is a parliamentary live subtitler at the Rome Capital.
He will provide us with an overview
about how terminology relates to the real-time subtitling practices
I hope you will enjoy it
Terminology, well this is an important question
because it comes to the editing issue.
To me there are three steps, three moments,
three stages of editing: pre-editing, peri-editing and post editing.
Pre-editing is something that fits your question,
Meaning that when I know that...
Before starting a session we are given the agenda
and we are given the documents that they will discuss.
So we we quickly read these documents
and see what kind of terminology is used.
For example a lot of toponyms are used in city council meetings
but also references to national legislation.
So all this terminology is introduced in the software
before we go on air.
So we don't need to type them when we encounter them,
at the same time we don't make the effort
of understanding phonetically what is said
because we already know that a toponymy will be pronounced.
Peri-editing is an important step of the respeaking process
If I know that my machine is not going to recognise a given word,
I prefer using other words to avoid problems.
For example the case of foreign names, foreign words
most of times you have an Italian equivalent
So I prefer using the Italian equivalent
not because I'm a purist
but because the machine better recognises those words.
the same is true for short words.
With respeaking short words are more subject
of being misrecognized.
So what we do is we try to use longer synonyms,
which is maybe counter intuitive
because what we normally do is to reduce the content
but in the case of single words
we may prefer using a longer synonym than a monosyllable for example
if this allows us to have a better recognition accuracy.
Ending the question of peri-editing
in case I have foreign words which I have to have in my subtitles
For example last week,
the council meeting dedicated
renamed the auditorium in Rome after Ennio Morricone, who died.
So when talking about his life several English proper names came along.
Such as the Grammy awards, the Golden Globes, that Morricone won.
In these cases you cannot you don't have a synonym
so you have to stop and type them.
Unless you have a tool that some software houses provide
which search the Google search terminology database
and you more easily have access to that word.
But in that case you have to type the word
or unless you're a live editor knows how to deal with that.
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