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LiveTextAccess: Training for real-time intralingual subtitlers.
This is unit 3, IT competence.
In this presentation, we will be dealing with Element 2: Output tools.
This will be an introduction
to the output tools used by real-time intralingual subtitlers.
The materials for this presentation have been created by Sub-Ti Access,
an accessibility service provider from Italy.
My name is Enrico Pigliacampo,
I am an Italian man with a beard and short hair.
I will be displayed in a box at the top right corner of each slide.
The learning outcome of this presentation
is that the trainee can explain the differences,
advantages and disadvantages of the output tools
available on the market (TV subtitling software, other)
for real-time intralingual subtitling.
After an introduction on how we gathered the data for this presentation,
we will see in details the survey we carried out to gather the data
and then we will talk about output tools.
There are not many data
about the tools used by real-time intralingual subtitlers.
When we talk about output tools,
the market offers a lot of different possibilities,
so we decided to carry out a survey
to understand which tools are the most used
by real-time intralingual subtitlers.
The survey was created using Google Forms
and was available online from 2 February 2021
to 18 February 2021.
The target group was professional real-time subtitlers.
The survey was disseminated
through LTA’s newsletter and social media
and partners shared the survey link with their contacts.
We received 40 answers.
The results of the survey are presented and analysed
in all 3 video lectures of Element 2.
In the second part of this lecture, I will present the survey.
The survey included 6 questions.
3 of them were general questions
about the technique used by the subtitlers
and the work context and setting they usually work in.
They questions were:
"Which technique do you usually use
to create real-time intralingual subtitles?"
"In which context(s) do you usually work?"
"In which work setting do you work the most?"
By context we mean the kind of event the subtitler works for.
By setting we mean how they work for that event:
face-to-face, online or by relay.
After the previous general questions,
there were 3 specific one about output tools.
These were:
"Which output tools (hardware) do you use?
Explain why you use them and in which context."
"Which output tools (software) do you use?
Explain why you use them and in which context."
"Do you use other language tools,
machine translation and crowdsourcing tools?"
We will now analyse the answers to the 3 general questions.
The first one is "Which technique do you usually use
to create real-time intralingual subtitles?"
The possible answers were respeaking, velotype or other typing technique.
Most respondents, which means 26
which is equivalent to 65% of the answers,
chose the third option: other typing technique.
Most of them use the traditional PC keyboard
with shortcuts to work faster,
only one respondent mentioned palantype,
which is a typing machine designed to type faster.
I’m not taking into consideration
some answers that are not useful for this presentation,
but that you may find in document
“Results of the LTA survey on output tools”.
Regarding the other techniques,
16 people, 40% of the answers. chose respeaking
and 4 people, 10% of the answers, chose velotype.
The second general question was: "In which contexts do you usually work?"
This was a multiple-choice question,
so subtitlers could chose one or several answers
among the 5 working contexts the LTA project takes into consideration:
cultural events, parliamentary assemblies,
broadcasts, workplace, education.
There was also the "other" option, for people to add other work contexts.
Here are the answers:
Cultural events: 23 answers, 57.5%.
Parliamentary assemblies: 13 answers, 32.5%.
Broadcasts: 12 answers, 30%.
Workplace: 30 answers, 75%.
Education: 30 answers, 75%.
Other: 19 answers, 47.5%.
Those who answered "other" specified the following contexts:
court, police, psychological settings,
healthcare, charitable sector, hotlines, phone calls.
The last general question was:
"In which work setting do you work the most?"
The people who answered the survey
could choose from among the three settings
the LTA project takes into consideration:
face-to-face, online, by relay.
Once again, it was a multiple question,
so they could choose one or several settings.
60% of the subtitlers who answered the survey work online,
30% work face-to-face
and only 10% work by relay.
The third section of this presentation
is an introduction to the output tools
used by real-time intralingual subtitlers.
It is based on the answers
given to the three specific questions of the survey.
We will analyse the data gathered
in the other two presentations of Element 2.
You can also find a complete overview of the answers
in the document “Results of the LTA survey on output tools”.
When talking about hardware,
we should consider the end users to choose the output tools.
In particular, it is important to know
whether the subtitles are going to be used by an audience
or a group of people or only by one person.
In the former case, a screen is needed to project the subtitles on
for the audience to read the subtitles,
with a projector connected to the subtitler’s computer.
If the audience is not very large, for example in a meeting,
we can also use a television set.
If only one person is going to read the subtitles,
or if a group of people are going to read them on their own devices,
the users will need to have a computer, tablet,
smartphone or a monitor, even a TV monitor,
where the subtitles can be sent for the users to read them.
The software programmes used by real-time subtitlers
can be divided into three groups.
The first group includes generic software,
programmes that were not developed specifically for real-time subtitling,
such as Microsoft Word and Google Doc.
Of course it is impossible
to create subtitles with these software programmes,
as they do not offer specific features needed for the job,
but they can be useful if you only need to share a document with the user,
for example in settings such as education or the workplace.
Most people know how to use such software
and they are almost always available.
The second group is made up of software created specifically for subtitling,
such as Text on Top or Streamtext.
Since they have been created for real-time subtitling,
they have features that help subtitlers provide high quality subtitles.
There are also subtitlers who share their desktop with the users
through software such as TeamViewer or GoToMyPC,
but this is something you can do when you only work for one person,
not for a whole audience.
Summary.
In conclusion, we suggest that when choosing the output tools
you need to take into consideration three aspects:
the context you will work in,
your professional needs and the needs of the end users.
Exercises.
Read “Results of the LTA survey on output tools”
to have an overview of the output tools available on the market.
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LTA, Live Text Access.
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
SDI, Internationale Hochschule.
Scuola Superiore per Mediatori Linguistici.
ZDF Digital.
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.