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Hello, my name is Estella Oncins

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I have short black hair
and I wear a pair of glasses and a sweater.

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Due to COVID
I am working remotely from home.

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I am sitting at the desk of my home office.

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On my back there is a map of the world.

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Accessibility is a world wide issue

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which has a wide spectrum
and involves all of us.

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I am going to present you the LTA project
Live Text Access.

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which is an European founded Erasmus+ project

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aiming to create open educational resources
for two accessibility professionals

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respeakers and velotypists.

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What are respeakers and velotypists
and which is their role in accessibility?

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In terms of accessibility if you are Deaf
or Hard of Hearing or have any hearing problem,

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you may have problems in accessing information
specially in real-time,

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which during the COVID is essential.

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Therefore, real-time subtitlers are crucial
to ensure that no audience is left behind.

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Respeakers are professionals
working with their voice.

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They listen to speakers and simultaneously
repeat, reformulate and translate

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what the speakers says into a micro

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connected to an automatic
speech recognition software,

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the software recognises the speakers voice
and turns the spoken words into writing.

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On the other hand,
velotypists or text interpreters

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listen to the speaker and type
at the same speed of the speakers voice,

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writing down everything that he or she says.

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In both cases the role of these professionals
is to provide access to information in real-time.

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The LTA project is a strategic partnership

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which involves partners
from different countries of Europe.

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It started in 2018 and will run for three years.

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It has been divided in five stages.

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and we are currently working
in the third and the fourth.

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The first stage
defined the skills of theses professionals.

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The second stage designed the curriculum
for vocational and academic training.

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In the current third and fourth stages

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we are creating learning materials
and assessing them.

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The last stage will be certification.

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The overall goal is to increase
the professionals in this accessibility field

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and ensure the quality of real-time subtitling.

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Thank you very much.