The LiveTextAccess project aims to develop open training materials for real-time subtitlers and respeakers. A consortium of higher education institutions and companies from several European countries are collaborating on the project, which is funded by the Erasmus+ program. The project will create skills standards for subtitlers, develop a modular online curriculum and training materials, pilot online courses, and establish a certification scheme. Outputs include skills cards, online educational content and resources, and a framework for validating and assessing the training program. The goal is to meet labor market needs for real-time subtitling and respeaking across different contexts and industries.

1. LiveTextAccess
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2. LiveTextAccess (LTA)
1. Consortium
2. Overview
3. Intellectual Outputs
4. Contacts

3. 1. Consortium

4. 1. Consortium
HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTES
SDI München
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
SSML - Pisa
COMPANIES
SUB-TI Access
Velotype VOF
ZDF Digital
ASSOCIATIONS
European Certification Quality Association (ECQA)
European Federation of Hard of Hearing People (EFHOH)

5. 2. Overview

6. 2. Overview
• Co-funded by ERASMUS+ Programme of the EU (2018-2021).
• GOAL: training materials for real-time intralingual subtitlers.
• FOCUS:
– curricula to meet labour market and societal needs,
– open education in the digital era,
– social inclusion.
• CONTEXTS: education, culture, assemblies, TV, workplace.
• METHODS: face-to-face, online and relay.

7. 2. Overview
REAL TIME SUBTITLING:
fast-writing techniques used
to produce real-time subtitles
of live TV programs
but also real-time court and
parliamentary reports,
and real-time transcripts
of conferences or classes.

8. 2. Overview
RESPEAKING: a respeaker listens
to speakers and simultaneously repeats,
reformulates or translates what they say
to a microphone connected
to an ASR software,
which automatically recognises
the respeaker’s voice
and turns it into written words.

9. 2. Overview
VELOTYPE: a Dutch invention
modernized in 2009. By pressing
several keys simultaneously,
complete syllables and words
can be made, instead of typing
character by character.
The keyboard can be used in
more than 30 different languages.

10. 3. Intellectual outputs

11. 3. Intellectual Outputs
IO1: Skills sets and best practices
IO2+IO3: Modular curriculum
+ Training materials
IO4: Online pilot course
IO5: Certification

12. IO1
Skills sets
and best practices
LEADER: SDI München
OUTPUT: define skills and competencies
of intralingual real-time subtitlers and identify
methodological and curriculum best practices.
METHOD: they will be structured as skills cards
into competence areas, learning objectives and
performance criteria.

13. IO2
Curriculum design
LEADER: SSML - Pisa
OUTPUT: Modular online content
for both formal and non-formal education
METHOD: Universal design approach and
collaboration with non-HEI partners and advisory
committee (NCRA, BIVR, Intersteno,

14. IO3
Training materials
LEADER: Velotype PRO
OUTPUT: online open source training materials
for Respeakers and Velotypists.
METHOD: basic training in either input system
and introduction to the different application
contexts in the different working settings.

15. IO4
Online pilot course
LEADER: UAB
OUTPUT: Assessing and validating quality and
appropriateness of course design (IO2) and
efficiency and adequacy of materials (IO3).
METHOD: repository of assessment and
validation methods and recommendations
on implementation and baseline data.

16. IO5
Certification
LEADER: ECQA
OUTPUT: 3. Provide a certifications scheme
for skills cards, trainers, training materials, self-
assessment and exam questions.
METHOD: Establish a Job Role Committee to
assure quality and sustainability of outcomes.

17. Contacts

18. 5. Contacts
Partner E-Mail
SDI rocio.bernabe@sdi-muenchen.de
UAB pilar.orero@uab.cat
SSML carloeugeni@gmail.com
direzionedidattica@mediazionelinguistica.it; viviana.masia@gmail.com
ECQA gsauberer@termnet.org;
michael.reiner@fh-krems.ac.at;
Velotype wim@velotype.com; sander@velotype.com
SUB-TI federico@subti.com;
EFHOH smolarek-best@hotmail.co.uk; marbob32@hotmail.com;
ZDF-Digital Hagmann.M@zdf-digital.com;
Denkel.V@zdf-digital.com; Wesemann.k@zdf-digital.com

19. 5. Contacts
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