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This Element is aimed at letting you
develop factors for high performance

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in Real-Time Intralingual Subtitling
through Respeaking.

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It is divided into three learning outcomes.

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On completion of this training sequence,

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you will be able to implement
strategies and techniques for self-motivation,

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like knowing your software
and its multiple facets,

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improving
your capacity to be accurate and rapid,

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motivating your team,

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and knowing how to gather information
on speeches before the job starts.

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This is the agenda.
We will first look at knowing your software,

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then the training and progress,

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followed by motivating
students and colleagues

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and finishing
with gathering information and speeches.

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In the end, we will give a summary.

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Let's get started
with knowing your software.

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Your respeaking software is not just a tool.

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It is your main partner
to reach high levels of performance.

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Getting to know it is fundamental
for your career.

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As you may know, there are freeware

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and more professional software programs
available on the market.

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Dragon Naturally Speaking is the most
widely used professional program by freelancers.

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Its manual provides all information needed
to learn all its options,

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thus constantly improving your performances.

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Although Dragon
is a product for Windows based PCs,

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Mac users can still use it
through Microsoft Parallel.

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Alternative options
are freeware available in the market,

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Google based or Microsoft based or Mac based.

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Making progress
is also fundamental for your motivation,

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as well as keeping track of it.

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Here we propose a couple of tips
to daily improve your performances

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or to keep a high standard.

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Another aspect you must start dealing with
is mistakes.

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Mistakes happen
and they can be more or less serious.

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If you keep making the same mistake,
this is frustrating.

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Knowing them and how to avoid them

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is fundamental
to achieve better and better results.

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Keep track of your mistakes.

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You will learn how to deal
with each of them and do a better job!

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For example, after your job
you can go through the text

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using the spellcheck and grammar check
to see if there are mistakes in the spelling.

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Keep a list of words you might find difficult
or in which you often make errors in spelling.

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Next time you can remember
how to write the words correctly.

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When a word is not correctly
recognized by the respeaking software,

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there may be several reasons for that.

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One is that the word
is not in the software vocabulary.

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Adding it to the software vocabulary
will improve the quality of your performance.

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Another reason is that you don't pronounce it

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the way the software
expects you to pronounce that word.

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Train it and the probability
the software recognises it will increase.

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Of course, you also need
to improve your dictations skills,

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allowing you
to constantly improve your skills.

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One further reason is related to its spelling:

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the word is not spelt as you wish.

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If it is a homophone that appears on screen,
you need to create a macro

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so as to differentiate it from other words
that are pronounced the same.

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If you or your company want that word
to be written in a way

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which is different from the one
which appears on screen,

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you need to modify its spelling
in the software vocabulary

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by replacing the software spelling
with your "house-style".

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One of the best ways to improve
your quality standard is to reach Mars!

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Well, I should say:
in order to reach your MARS,

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the acronym for Most Accurate
and Rapid Speech-to-text rate.

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Because you must be quick
but also avoid mistakes

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that may hinder comprehension
of what you are writing,

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MARS is the maximum number of words per minute

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one is able to produce
while keeping high quality standards.

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Knowing your MARS will allow you to understand

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when you can follow your speaker word for word

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and when you need to summarise
in order to keep high quality standards.

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It can be very useful
to have colleagues or students

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who go through the same process
and to motivate each other.

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When you are learning
the system completely by yourself,

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it can be difficult
to stay disciplined and motivated.

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But perhaps there is someone
in your environment

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who can help you in staying motivated
and not giving up.

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Maybe it is your parents, brother,
sister or a best friend.

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Just having them motivate you can be helpful.

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When you are learning the system together
in a group of students, or with colleagues,

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it can work great if you motivate each other.

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And discuss the progress
and the problems you encounter.

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Of course, a teacher or coach
can help you with this as well.

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Later on, when doing jobs in the field,

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it is always good to discuss
your problems or questions

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with other colleagues who might have
encountered similar situations.

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The last aspect we consider important
to develop factors for high performance

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in real-time intralingual subtitling is gathering
the information you need for the job.

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This is also called pre-editing.

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As you know, pre-editing consists of getting

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as much information as possible
from speakers on the topic.

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This will help you motivate to do the job.

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Every time I am called to do a job, I look
at the agenda for two important things:

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who the speakers are
and what they will talk about.

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I then surf the Net looking
for previous speeches of the same speakers

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and / or speeches about the same topics.

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This will allow me to enrich my knowledge
of the topic as well as my vocabulary.

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Being prepared makes me feel much better,
allows me to do a better job

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and even allows me to find exit strategies
more easily when in trouble.

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When you know beforehand
a speaker will read a speech from paper,

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it can be very useful to have this beforehand.

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Especially with unexperienced speakers
it can be a challenge when they read a speech,

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when being nervous or too fast.