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Live Text Access.
Training for real time intralingual subtitlers.

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Unit 6 - Velotyping. Introduction.

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This video lecture has been created
by SSML and Velotype.

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Hello and welcome to this unit.

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I am Wim Gerbecks,
owner of the Velotype company

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and intralingual real time subtitler
for television

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and for the deaf and Hard of Hearing.

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This introduction is aimed
at introducing you

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with some of the topics
that we are going to deal with

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in the different elements
that compose it.

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I will first define Velotyping.

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Then we will have a look into
the product and process of Velotyping.

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And finally I will introduce
the skills of the velotypist.

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The agenda.

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Section 1 – Definition.

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As you may already know,
velotyping is a technique

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by which it is possible to produce
real-time intralingual subtitles

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as we call them.

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While I am sure you have already seen
live subtitles in your life

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or here in the different training materials
of the LTA project

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you may not know the details
of the products and the processes.

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Let’s start by defining velotyping.

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Velotyping is a fast-writing technique

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that allows to produce real-time subtitles
by means of a Velotype keyboard.

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To do so, the velotypist
listens to the speaker

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and simultaneously presses
a combination of keys

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instead of single keys

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to more rapidly produce
the words of a transcript

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a reformulation or a translation
of the same speech

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that can be read by the HoH/deaf
or foreign audience in real time.

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This old picture shows how
live subtitling with Velotype was done

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many years ago at NOS in the Netherlands.

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Section 2 – How does Velotype work?

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Here you see how the keys
of the Velotype are divided

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among the fingers of the hand.

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As you can see, the thumb

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which is the most flexible finger
of the hand

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also plays an important role.

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And even the mouse of the hands
are being used for the big purple keys

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On the left side of the keyboard

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the initial consonants of a syllable
or word are being produced.

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In the middle the vowels

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and on the righthand side the final consonants.

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The big NoSpace key on the right

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is being used for connecting
syllables together.

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This way on average 3 characters
are produced with every chord of keys.

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Section 3. The products of Velotyping.

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Velotyping can be used to produce

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 TV subtitles, conference subtitles
or Speech-to-Text Interpreting

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parliamentary subtitles, and personalised access
to any type of speech event.

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This is an example of TV live subtitling.

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In this case also with a sign language interpreter.

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This is an example of conference subtitling,
or Speech-to-Text Interpreting.

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This is an example of
parliamentary subtitling

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not to be confused with
parliamentary reporting

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 which is the transcript of what is said
by MPs for a future access.

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This is an example of personal access
to daily events.

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In this case two hard-of-hearing participants
attend a meeting thanks to a live transcript.

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This is another example of personalised
everyday access to a daily event.

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In this case an Italian deaf student
is attending an English class.

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The teacher speaks English
and Italian alternatively.

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Section 4 – the process of velotyping.

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One other thing
that you may not know

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is that there are different types
of approaches and workflows

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involving Velotyping that
we will see along the module.

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In TV subtitling, the whole process
between the speaker speaking

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and the audience reading
the subtitles consists of 5 steps

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as you can see from this table.

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In particular, the first step
is the speaker speaking

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which is not that banal as it may seem.

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Because depending on who speaks
the source text and how

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several approaches depend.

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Then the audio text is broadcast.

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Step 2.

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Here again broadcasting has an influence
on the final product

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because depending on when and where
the video to be subtitled is broadcast

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subtitles will be more or less delayed.

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We will see this later in the module.

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The third step is the velotypist
listening to the video to subtitle

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and trying to understand
what the speaker says.

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The fourth step is the velotypist repeating,
reformulating

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or translating what the speaker has said
by typing a repetition

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reformulation or translation
on the fantastic keyboard called Velotype.

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Step number five, the subtitles
are finally sent on air

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and the audience can read them
with a delay that ranges between 1 to 6 seconds

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depending on the workflow.

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To facilitate its understanding
we have divided these 5 steps into 3 groups

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which we will call “texts”.

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The first three steps can be grouped together
and referred to as the Source Text.

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The 4th step can be referred to as the Mid Text.

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The last step can be referred to as the Target Text.

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Section 5 – The skills of the velotypist.

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As you have seen a velotypist
has to do many things at the same time.

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In this slide I sum up
the four main macro-areas

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systematising the skills
a velotypist has to possess.

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A velotypist has to possess
psycho cognitive skills

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metalinguistic skills, typing skills
and editing skills.

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In this Unit we will deal
with all these skills.

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The summary.

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I hope this first video lecture
on Velotyping was a good start.

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We have seen what Velotyping is
and some of the products and processes

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of real-time intralingual subtitling
through Velotyping.

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Finally, I have introduced
the skills of the velotypist

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which will be dealt with into more details
in the five elements of this unit.

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See you soon.

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