5th International Symposium Respeaking, Live Subtitling and Accessibility

Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma, 12 June 2015

8.30-10.00 Registration 

9.00-9.15 Welcome and conference opening 

9.15- 9.30 “ITU work on ICT Accessibility” Roxana Widmer-Iliescu, Unione Internazionale delle Telecomunicazioni  

9.30-11:00 PANEL 1: LIVE SUBTITLING ON TELEVISION: FOCUS ON QUALITY 

CHAIR: Gion Linder, Swiss Text

  • Pablo Romero Fresco, “Live subtitling in the UK: an official review”
  • Aleš Pražák, “Live TV subtitling in Czech”
  • Zoe Moores, “The language of respeaking”
  • Juan Martínez Pérez, “New Approaches to Improve the Quality of Live Subtitling on TV”

Coffee break

11.30- 13:00 PANEL 2: RESPEAKING: EXPERIMENTAL STUDIES 

CHAIR: Pablo Romero Fresco, University of Roehampton

  • Katarzyna Stachowiak, “More than meets the ear: Do subtitles matter for the well-educated, speaking hearing impaired?” 
  • Agnieszka Szarkowska, ŁukaszDutka“Are interpreters better respeakers? An exploratory study on respeaking competences”
  • Agnieszka Chmiel, Agnieszka Lijewska, Łukasz Dutka, Agnieszka Szarkowska, Isabela Krejtz, Krzysztof Krejtz, “Tapping the linguistic competence in the respeaking process: comparing intralingual paraphrasing done by interpreting trainees, translation trainees and bilinguals”

14:30-16:00 PANEL 3: NEW APPLICATIONS OF TECHNOLOGY 

CHAIR: Pilar Orero, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

  • Andrew Lambourne, “Pushing forward the frontiers of access technology”
  • Carlo Aliprandi, “Evaluating performances of automatic speech recognition for assisted subtitling”
  • Andreas Søeborg Kirkedal, Julián Zapata, “Translating and respeaking in a native or foreign language and from different environments: a pre-pilot experiment with a laptop and a tablet”
  • Lukasz Daniluk, Anna Matamala, Pablo Romero-Fresco,“Transcribing documentaries: can respeaking be used efficiently?”

16:00-17:00 PANEL 4: RESPEAKING AS A PROFESSIONAL OPPORTUNITY 

CHAIR: Federico Spoletti, Sub-Ti & FRED.fm

  • Carlo Eugeni “Teaching live subtitling for the deaf through respeaking- the potential for blind respeakers and paraplegic live editors”
  • Robin Ribback, “Vocational training for blind speech-to-text-reporters”

Coffee break

17:00-18:00 ROUND TABLE: FOCUS ON ITALY

CHAIR: Carlo Eugeni, Università Roma Tre

  • Giacomo Pirelli, Luca Iacovino “Proposta di aggiornamento delle legislazioni italiane relative all’accessibilità dei programmi delle emittenti televisive per i cittadini sordi”
  • Samuel Zambelli, “La Meeting Industry in Italia oggi può offrire attraverso il respeaking nuove opportunità sia per gli organizzatori di congressi ed eventi che per i professionisti della documentazione scritta?”
  • Lorenzo Di Ciaccio, “La telefonata sottotitolata”