TY - JOUR AU - Davitti, Elena AU - Sandrelli, Annalisa PY - 2020/12/18 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Embracing the Complexity: A Pilot Study on Interlingual Respeaking JF - Journal of Audiovisual Translation JA - JAT VL - 3 IS - 2 SE - Special Issue: November 2020 DO - 10.47476/jat.v3i2.2020.135 UR - https://www.jatjournal.org/index.php/jat/article/view/135 SP - 103–139 AB - <h5>This paper presents the key findings of the pilot phase of SMART (<em>Shaping Multilingual Access through Respeaking Technology</em>), a&nbsp;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.</h5> ER -