Process Analysis of Coordinated Entry in Text Interpreting SHIRASAWA, Mayumi; MIYOSHI, Shigeki; KAWANO, Sumihiro ...
Interpreting and Translation Studies: The Journal of the Japan Association for Interpreting and Translation Studies,
2010, Volume:
10
Journal Article
Open access
In order to contribute to training and skill improvement of operators in text interpreting, introspective data by and actual text interpreting images of two experienced operators were analyzed and ...details of the work process during entry by text interpreters were described by using a flow chart in this study. As a result, it was clarified that (1) two operators spare significant attention to coordinated entry by mutually checking entry by the other party on the monitor, (2) the process of coordinated entry is large and can be divided into “decision of the location of interruption,” “processing of the beginning of a sentence,” “entry of a main text,” “processing of the end of a sentence,” “confirmation of consistency,” etc., and (3) details of this process can be described with a flow chart by using three subgroups including kanji conversion, decision of the location of interruption and avoidance of interference, in addition to the main loop related to entry.
Evaluation of text produced by a speech-to-text service SHIRASAWA, Mayumi; MATSUZAKI, Jo; YOSHIKAWA, Ayumi ...
Interpreting and Translation Studies: The Journal of the Japan Association for Interpreting and Translation Studies,
2009, Volume:
9
Journal Article
Open access
An increasing number of Japanese deaf or hard of hearing students who will attend universities heightened the need for a PC-based speech-to-text service which provides the transcription of ...instructors’ speech into text. In our study seven Japanese university students evaluated to what extent the service reflects the original speech. This paper reports the factors that influence their evaluations and identifies the matters that demand special attention on the part of the service providers. It suggests that priority should be given to the subject of the sentence and keywords, followed by facts, attitude of the speaker, and the development of the sentence.
People who are deaf or hard of hearing may need to use support services, such as text messaging to access information, but this depends on the condition of their hearing. However, providing ...captioning services to deaf or hard-of-hearing people may be difficult in a case where such people need to access information from captionists when traveling. Therefore, we proposed, built, and operated the "Mobile-Type Remote Captioning System" to solve such problems. The need for methods of expression, for use by deaf or hard-of-hearing students in communication with instructors, when using this system were investigated in this study. Results indicated that almost 60% of the students wished to use their own speech as a method of expression. In contrast, the remaining students relied on other methods, for which technical support was required.
People who are deaf or hard of hearing may need to use support services, such as text messaging to access information, but this depends on the condition of their hearing. However, providing ...captioning services to deaf or hard-of-hearing people may be difficult in a case where such people need to access information from captionists when traveling. Therefore, we proposed, built, and operated the "Mobile-Type Remote Captioning System" to solve such problems. The need for methods of expression, for use by deaf or hard-of-hearing students in communication with instructors, when using this system were investigated in this study. Results indicated that almost 60% of the students wished to use their own speech as a method of expression. In contrast, the remaining students relied on other methods, for which technical support was required.
Skills for Speech-to-ext Service form the Users’ Perspective SHIRASAWA, Mayumi; MATSUZAKI, Jo; YOSHIKAWA, Ayumi ...
Interpreting and Translation Studies: The Journal of the Japan Association for Interpreting and Translation Studies,
2008, Volume:
8
Journal Article
Deaf or hard-of-hearing people need support services such as real-time captioning. It is fairly common for captionists to be unable to perform captioning services. In order to address this problem, ...we proposed a Mobile-type Remote-captioning System. The main characteristic of our system is to use two functions of one mobile phone (e.g. the iPhone 3G/3GS, Apple Computer, Inc.) at the same time. The two functions are to display the captions input by the captionists (data communications) and to call the captionists to transmit the speaker's speech to the captionists (telephone call). The purpose of our research was to make clear the differences with the existing system, and to discover the advantages and faults of our system. In this study, we investigated these issues using a questionnaire for captionists who had used our system. As a result, we found that our system is suitable for a situation in which the speaker and the deaf or hard-of-hearing person are communicating while walking together (e.g. excursions, plant tours), whether indoors or outdoors. In addition, it reduces the stress that can be caused to deaf or hard-of-hearing children by having adults (captionists) other than teachers in the classroom.
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