Embracing the Complexity: a pilot study on Interlingual Respeaking
Davitti, Elena and Sandrelli, Annalisa (2020) Embracing the Complexity: a pilot study on Interlingual Respeaking Journal of Audiovisual Translation.
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Abstract
This paper presents the key findings of the pilot phase of SMART (Shaping Multilingual Access though Respeaking Technology), a multidisciplinary international project focusing on interlingual respeaking (IRSP) for real-time speech-to-text. SMART addresses key questions around IRSP feasibility, quality and competences. The pilot project is based on experiments involving 25 postgraduate students who performed two IRSP tasks (English-Italian) after a crash course. The analysis triangulates subtitle accuracy rates with participants’ subjective ratings and retrospective self-analysis. The best performers were those with a composite skillset, including interpreting/subtitling and interpreting/subtitling/respeaking. Participants indicated multitasking, time-lag, and monitoring of the speech recognition software output as the main difficulties; together with the great variability in performance, personal traits emerged as likely to affect performance. This pilot lays the conceptual and methodological foundations for a larger project involving professionals, to address a set of urgent questions for the industry.
Item Type: | Article | |||||||||
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Divisions : | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences > School of Literature and Languages | |||||||||
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Date : | 22 July 2020 | |||||||||
Funders : | Pump Priming Fund - University of Surrey, Research Fund of the Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) | |||||||||
Grant Title : | SMART | |||||||||
Uncontrolled Keywords : | interlingual respeaking; speech-to-text; live subtitling; interpreting; human-machine interaction | |||||||||
Additional Information : | Embargo Unknown: The Journal of Audiovisual Translation is not present in the Sherpa Database. Metadata Pending | |||||||||
Depositing User : | James Marshall | |||||||||
Date Deposited : | 04 Aug 2020 13:12 | |||||||||
Last Modified : | 04 Aug 2020 13:12 | |||||||||
URI: | http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/id/eprint/858354 |
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