Speech recognition benefits for consecutive interpreting
I am writing my master thesis on this topic with the aim to examine whether the speech-recognition software could be of help in consecutive interpreting. I will be using the Gile´s effort model (1995) to see...
I am writing my master thesis on this topic with the aim to examine whether the speech-recognition software could be of help in consecutive interpreting. I will be using the Gile´s effort model (1995) to see if a speech-recognized source text could facilitate efforts (such as listening and analyzing (L) and remembering (Rem)). This method would be similar to SimCons - interpretation with a SmartPen, only this time a source text would be written, which could introduce a new method - the SightCons (a fusion of Sight translation and Consecutive Interpreting). I will be doing an experiment with two groups of advanced conference-interpreting students, in which they will be doing two consecutive interpretations - a "classical" consecutive with note-taking, and "SightCons" with the help of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking software and note-taking (if they wish). Both interpretations will be rated upon quality criteria (Kurz 2001). I would really appreciate your ideas and comments regarding my experiment and thesis in general :) Also, once the experiment has been conducted, I would be more than happy to share the results here in the group.
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