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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 show a testimonial by Veerle Haverhals,
a real-time intralingual subtitler from Belgium,
about real-time subtitles in television.
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 am going to introduce our invited speaker,
Veerle Haverhals.
Then, I will illustrate the topics of the video.
First of all, let me introduce you Veerle Haverhals.
Veerle Haverhals is a real-time subtitler from Belgium.
She works for the Belgium broadcaster VTM Nieuws.
She uses respeaking to provide real-time subtitles.
Let me give you some information before watching the video.
In this testimonial,
Veerle will guide us to a quick tour in the news studio where she works.
She will show the office where she provides real-time subtitles
and the equipment she uses, with a focus on the software.
Ok, let’s watch the video now!
Hello. Welcome at the news studio of DPG Media, Belgium.
I'm Veerle Haverhals, and I work here as a live-subtitler for the news.
And so, I will guide you around,
so you also discover the wonderful world of live subtitling
for programs, such as the news and other formats.
You know the news studio, of course, from television.
And behind me, there is the green key
for the weather forecast.
When the news is starting,
you will have here an autocue for the text,
so the presenter can actually also follow the news in that way,
and present in the best possible way.
And this text is really important for us too.
Because [inaudible], if the text is already there.
Here we are in our live subtitling desk.
You will see, I will show you around
and I'll also indicate you to some practical tools
of the live subtitling.
Let me just give you an overview.
You can see our working desk.
We can sit over here.
We're 4 people working in...
the same setting.
We work in pairs, so you can see the screen
of the other person while broadcasting.
This is always handy when going live.
This program is iNEWS, a sort of newsroom.
And, as I just told you,
if there is an autocue with text,
why wouldn't we use it also for our live subtitling,
instead of doing everything live?
We call this semi-live. As you can see over here,
there is a text available.
We will use it also in our subtitling software.
In this example, we are using WinCaps Q-Live.
And over here, you will see the text in the same way.
We prepare it, and ready for broadcasting.
The only thing we still need to do,
is giving in-times and out-times live.
But, when something is completely ready,
as you can see with the film over here,
we can already prepare it completely,
and we don't have to broadcast it live anymore.
The subtitles will be displayed on the screen, after giving spotting.
When something is going really live, as we go here in "intro live"
there will be some questions
that we saw over here, in iNEWS:
"live Julie".
Some questions.
The questions are automatically updated in our software.
And then when the news starts, we start respeaking.
And adding these subtitles live.
And putting them on the screen, as you see here.
We have a television next to us.
So we can directly follow the result of our live subtitling,
and see if everything is OK.
In case anything would be wrong,
we have here the option
to take subtitles out.
You see the auto subtitling and the live subtitling.
[Inaudible],
if we would like to change something
and stop the broadcasting of the subtitles.
Last but not least, in that corner,
we have the television screens
with here, on the left sides, the television of the studio
where the broadcasting would be happening.
And on the right sides,
we can see all the different kind of subtitling, both the teletext,
and the open captions.
This was a quick tour of our working place.
I hope you enjoyed it,
and has given you maybe a little more clarity
of how it is actually working.
Bye bye!
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.