We have Maria Lopez Lozano and Raquel
Alianza about their.
I will start because it takes a little bit longer.
Lopez Lozano holds a degree
in translation and interpretation from the Catolica in Murcia.
Since also trained as a Spanish sign language interpreter.
Her experience as a Spanish sign language interpreter
and her training as a translator has allowed her to match both fields
and compliment them to such an extent that they can feed off each other.
She currently works to come in their certificate management
department, where she oversees the issuance of official document
documentation for international students.
Maria works are not Maria Lopez.
Lozano's work begins with a deep personal con, a love that
with a deep personal connection to her field of study
that is intention that all people
because it's connected to the not to everything
I would say
the intention that all people should be able to have equal rights.
In this sense, she has a on covering a specific area of study,
the accessibility of that people in audio visual translation.
And then we have the alliance
about that that holds
may influence linguistics and then vocation and works
as a lecturer and researcher at the Modern Languages department to come.
What is this, a member of the Directive board
in her role as Academic Secretary
of the Bachelor's Degree in Translation Interpreting
and which she is in terms of subject says consecutive interpreting
in general Translation Another visual translation.
In addition, she has taught several courses,
both at an age grace on English and
second language signing, despite the specific proposals as well as
foreign language teaching methodology and evaluation techniques.
She has recently participated as a researcher and translator
in an European project analyzing, sorry, analyzing
digital literacy skills of university students in collaboration
with universities in Ankara, Coventry and Zagreb.
She has presented papers in different international conferences
and published several books chapters in the area
and currently is completing her
dissertation on
artificial translation studies focused on reception of Dapt
and redubbed products for Don't Excuse Lawyers Women.
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Thank you very much.
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Well.
So to start, then, I'm Raquel.
I'm here with my coauthor, Maria, and we are here to present Legal,
and I say legal because of what will explain later.
That is the size of the sample.
Sorry.
On accessibility, the people on audiovisual translation.
What we have done in these studies to try to develop, to carry out
a comparison on on screen same
Spanish sign language and subtitles
for death on hard of hearing people.
So we are going to disclose
this presentation,
this movie.
Yeah, we are going to splain
why how everything started and we will try to give you
small, brief sort and sweet conceptual framework.
Okay, for this study.
And we will move on to the objectives
as well as the methodology and how we carried out this study.
After that, I
will try to focus more into the analysis of results
from the discussion, which is utterly the the decisions
that we want to highlight more,
and we'll go through the conclusions of this comparison of these
two modalities, which is brand new and is happening in
not every platform, as we will see, but is becoming
more and more common.
So no. Yeah.
Hello everyone. Well.
Although we shall translation to all translation
for six civilities and emerging file of study.
So we all know we think that it is essential to grant everyone's
right to have access to information, entertainment and.
Culture.
The present study is framed within the accessibility of their
from of hearing people within them.
They are the visual translation.
The aim of this study is to carry out contrastive analysis
of the quality of the reception of the measured.
By. The heart, by the deaf, or hard of hearing people
in audiovisual media, especially in streaming platforms,
to check if
the subtitles for the film hard of hearing people actually listen
to meet the needs of the entire deaf or hearing impaired population.
Let's see now the conceptual framework.
Well, the current overview.
Today, Daily Visual media plays a key role
in providing access to information.
These need to include audio visual translation
as a tool of removing the barriers of information
for the people.
Many channels, TV channels and streaming platforms offer
part of its contents,
and with as the age as subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing people.
But we find that the the presence of sign language is scarce
or even non-existent at all.
So this is the current beyond
the deaf people population is very diverse.
We can find different types, some degree of communication,
of deafness and different forms of communication,
different levels of literacy.
We must say that
Spanish sign language is considered on official language
in Spain.
We wish all translation has a6x6 to allow the vision translation
and we have here two offers and as the eight SL interpreting
the Spanish sign language interpreting well, both modalities
completely different, but equally necessary,
it's just that I saw a need of inclusion
and of accessibility in television translation.
Let's see now up to this.
Okay, regarding digital tapes, okay.
One of the main reasons we developed this study is because
after we identified in well, mainly
one platform that we will reveal in the next slide
was offering both the modalities
of inclusion of Accessibility Day.
The ones that we already know.
There are subtitles, accessible subtitles.
SDH And the also at the same time, you could select as well
to have a Spanish sign language interpreting on a screen.
Okay, So we found those both
resources available
as as a saw as a means of inclusion, something we should
dig a little bit into and to try to shed some light
on the references supporting them.
Though our main focus was to analyze the degree
of the quality of the reception of the message by the target viewers,
by the target audience of the contents available
both in both modalities in SDH and as a Spanish
sign language interpreting on the screen interpreting women
know like in life are indeed the social platforms.
We part okay with the comparisons of choose scenes
that we have carefully selected with that were carefully chosen.
They are selected and compared on target audience.
So we want our research questions to start with
is is the accessible offer that we have sufficient
to remove those barriers to warranty inclusion on accessibility
to information, and in
this case, entertainment, culture, access.
And if it is necessary to include as well as we found in this platform,
the Spanish sign language interpreting
as a means of accessibility within how do we so translation
and how this interpreting this Spanish
language interpreting would be received
regarding to the specific objectives that we included is to measure
the amount of information received by the targeted user
in both modalities, in both available modalities, the
Spanish
death on hard of Hearing people could just choose
with the remote controls and to verify the target uses is
as well as part of acceptability
in receiving the speech in both modalities and to reveal
the degree of satisfaction US uses as audience
in the reception of the speech of the script,
let's say, of the of the plot in both modalities.
Well, let's. Start with the choice of the scenes
we sing.
For witness.
So this platform was chosen because it offers
some of its contents in both modalities movie stars
plus five s, and it offers part of the content
its contents in an inspired sign language.
SDH So
we selected two scenes from one from the movie
Allies, another from the movie Fast and Furious.
This two scenes
were chosen because they allowed us to to take
and and to see and to analyze the drama perception of the emotions
within the characters, not in the scenes.
Some components.
We also
could verify how the more the intentionality of manipulation
to get what she wants is perceived on
human component also.
Well, let's move now to this subjects subjects of study.
Well, 14 hearing people have participated in this study.
The average age is 43.5 years and they participate there.
People with different types, degrees of deafness and different
dominant studies of resident are motion by film.
And then this 74.3% declared that they feel that the
spine
sign language as a day mother tongue.
If we talk about the level of studies we have
that the 35.7% have masters degrees
degree studies, then 28.6% bachelor's degree degrees studies
them 21.4 higher vocational education.
And then we have that this 7.1%
have a social studies.
If we move to this sorry,
this sign on this table is shown well, we designed this in this survey
with quantitative and qualitative methodology
because we sent that survey via Google form with
some questions that they had to answer.
And we include an open ended question in the in the questionnaire.
As you can see here, this screenshot of the introduction,
we tell them the the reasons to carry out this study, how,
how it's done is going to it will take two to the the survey,
the external shirt
instructions for its correct composition.
Well let's see now we must say that it wasn't adapted so
we because we use it simple, acquire
clear language so everyone can
understand.
The question is, no matter
the level of literacy they have, we included
pictures of the specific scenes.
The questionnaire
was sent
to two hearing impaired people
and we send it via WhatsApp and in a PDF files.
So I see.
So the the dissemination could be easier
and we encourage all deaf community to participate in meet.
Well, this,
this and this are the question that we included in their questionnaire
and one corresponds to the Sociodemographic dimension.
And then we have looked to bear with question
questions corresponding to our lives.
Since the first one.
And how do you better perceive the emotion
of the characters in the scenes with the ASL interpreter or with the.
SDH Well, we have yet to hear that the
57% selected
SDH as the preference option
against the 43% that the selected as ASL interpreter.
Then in the number eight, we have the description of the engine noise
help you to perceive the intention of the situation.
Well, 79% declared that it helps
and then 21% and declared that not it doesn't.
We The next question which modality do you perceive it better?
Well 71% selected.
SDH As they prefer an option and then the 29%
and Spencer language interpreter
If we move to the ballot three there were questions
related with related to for some food to scenes.
The first one was how do you better perceive
the mother's intention to do what she wants with with,
with as the age or with as ASL interpreter
Well, we have see here that the 79%
of the the respondent, the person correspond
to as the eight and then 31% corresponds to
as interpreter.
Did you get the job?
Well, at 30, the 34% indicate that not very much.
38% get that?
Yes, they got it.
And we have 80% that did agree that.
No, not at all.
They didn't get the joke at all.
When we ask, was it funny ever with the is the age
or with as a cell interpreter where we have here that the 46%
selected ASL interpreter
and then 23% selected as the eight
we have here also that the 31%
didn't find it funny
in either of the the modalities.
Now we pass to the general questions sections.
Well, in that part they had to select
from 1 to 5
and the level of satisfaction, information of receiving
and deliver the degree of comfort that they have.
So they had to select it from 1 to 5 being one the lower some
being five, the highest one, the score.
How satisfied are you with the SDH Well,
42.9% selected three
then we have here the in the option with the as a cell interpreter.
Well, the patient that is 28.6%
that selected three and you can see that and then the result here
the results here, how much information
will have more or less and the same percentage.
And we can we can discuss them later.
Yes. As a general question
we asked about that, do you prefer to view the scenes
with the subtitles for deaf and hard of hearing people
or with signs and language interpreter in that case,
this In that case they selected SDH
Preferred option against the 29%
of Spanish language interpreter.
The open question
What's their opinion about the about?
SDH On the Spanish language within series, movies, TV channels
and so on, the responses
collected can be connected with a social demographic data obtained
from the first look of the question, and they will
discuss later.
Let's move now.
Let's start now with this discussion part.
Well, here we have the the results of
when when we ask about the
perception of emotional drama, when we ask about the song component,
the description of some components, if it is help or not.
Also, we ask about the intention of the the mother
if they they get that that intention or not.
And we ask about the human component.
Well, when it comes to the perception
of emotional drama, we can see here that the the
the the role of the sign language
is so important because they selected
a Spanish language as they prefer option.
When we ask about the the description of the song components,
well they declare that it help allow the this help so and
we can say that this description helps to
to understand the scenes for them
when we ask about intention of the mother in that case
they selected as the eight as the preferred option.
Well we can
these results can be
because of many reasons because
but we can say that the
thanks to the
to the previous question does we we did
they answer that the level of studies
were high so they don't have any problem
to understand the question under the titles.
It's not a problem for them.
I mean is not the problem.
The speed is not the problem that the comprehension of this and this
these subtitles.
So that's maybe one of the reason they they chose that the option.
And we ask when we ask about humor.
Well again we have here that the spicy language plays
an important role.
Let's count them the different categories.
This comes from discussion.
Yeah. Okay.
So they
responded preferences to views, scenes with the Spanish
language or and subtitles where here we have that the predominant
option for choice is subtitles.
And because of that, we can say that we can respond
all the deaf people community does with the subtitle.
But this a person thought that the that in Spanish
sign language that they prefer it as a sign language.
So we cannot ignore this
group of people pretend to this to to.
Them.
To respond all the information necessities
just with the subtitles.
Well, thanks to the open question, they declared that they in
there needs to improve in both modalities.
Can well, as we say before, at the beginning
of the result, translation in this is an emerging file of study
and these are four of accessibility
with within audiovisual translation.
The the drivers of the
the deaf community makes this tucks
this stuck even harder.
And this study has some limitation.
Maybe the size of this simple
the quality of the is the AIDS is fine in sign language interpreting
this study or when I saw
future lines of research suggests
human musicality
that two components
present represent a maybe talent
and we can go further in a deeper
in a large study.
Yeah we must say the the
we open up here are future research file dedicate
to audiovisual translation professional where the inclusion
of the hearing impaired quality is a priority in order to
to achieve a real and quality accessibility.
There are some references in case you want to take it,
and thank you very much for listening.
Thank you. Maria Buckle.
I don't know if there is some questions.
Yeah. Is there?
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
It's one
I was just wondering
what streaming platforms.
Yeah.
Could you choose both notes?
So would you have. I'm sorry about the question.
Not at the same time.
No, no, I'm just. Saying one had the other.
Is like, if you were choosing the subtitles, would you
can you choose like French and German titles at the same time?
So it was just like another option.
So you have to set. Them because
of course we have a lot.
Yeah, especially the public speech only ones.
But streaming platforms kind of never thought about it.
Actually.
I'm quite curious, but I was I was just going to to comment
on the fact that from our experience with the deaf community,
we have a lot of difficulties.
I was actually mentioning this due to cutting
a lot of the people in Braganza do not master the sign language,
Portuguese sign language, which is a huge problem. Right?
We had, for example, several people in the theater that could not follow
that interpreting.
Of course, they have to follow the the the subtitles.
But one of the our deaf consultants, he actually said very clearly,
I rather have both at the same time interpreting for us,
and I could do something else and we can go to one of those
in specific.
So yeah, and he's a very fluent
user of Portuguese in
sign language, so it would be wonderful to see more
in the future when both of these notes would be at the same time.
And I think it would enhance the incivility of of of any said
yes. Well, thank you, Claudia.
Absolutely.
I mean, it would be ideal,
even though we do value we think is really, really worth
the fact that they're including our own screen sign language.
So that was something
that it was only available like in channels, like Sony channels.
So when they have like a plenary session in one of the
chambers here or something like really, really official only
for entertainment purposes, we didn't see Spanish sign language before.
Like especially on platforms, at least on the movies are five
plus the only one that has this availability.
The rest of them, they have eight as the H, but not other options.
The combination of both options, it was something that
they could hear us. It would be fantastic.
The good take out on this, that suggestion.
Absolutely.
But we did have a mixed picture when it comes to the sample.
We have both people that are that have like
really low literacy level that sometimes they struggle to read.
So it would be impossible to to think that they
they find any comfort or enjoyment
when it comes to reading, especially with the accessible titles
that they include.
FA the words, even when they sometimes get simpler.
But there are others that, for instance, found the at having the
the interpreter, the sign language interpreter on the screen was rather
when it comes to like an entertainment kind of content,
they found that it would be a distracting or annoying
because he was taking way too much space into the screen.
So it depends.
I don't know if having both would be even more annoying for them.
I don't know because it would take way too much space concerning this
is, as I said, like entertainment choice, you know.
But they finally this picture show us like different results.
So we sometimes struggle to to identify and analyze.
But yeah, they finally we
we were surprised that not the majority of them
having at declaring themselves to have a Spanish standing language
as the more the tone or to be fluent I'm feeling comfortable
with Spanish sign language.
They didn't choose as the as the most preference option Spanish
sign language on the screen to finally.
Okay so first of all, thank you both for thinking about Spanish.
Sign language is really, really rare to have such kind of of
informative information here.
And I want to ask you if you have taken into account
the type of disability when talking about hard,
deaf or hard of hearing people, because
I've been working with deaf and hard
of hearing people since many years ago.
And I mean, if you have discovered that Spanish
sign language is the mother tongue, isn't it
normal to have the answer that they are
or they feel more at ease when when receiving the information
in the Spanish language?
Because the moment of. Acquiring the.
Disability is very important.
I mean, if you you you are deaf
since there since your birth,
it is normal to be more at ease with the Spanish language.
But if you have learned during your life
how to read or how how to understand, reading text is indeed again
normal to be more at ease with the with subtitles,
even if their design is specifically for deaf or hard of hearing people.
All right.
We did have an
in mind and we had saw one of the different set
of criteria in the Sofia graphic dimension at the beginning,
our classification of the different levels
of different degrees of affection of their impairment.
However, it would have been impossible
to suppose every, every single case out of the 12 people
that participated in the in their in the questionnaire.
However, we couldn't see it.
We found out that it was more related with their literacy level as well
as well as you said, of course, this posture to Spanish sign language.
No, but we were surprised at the fact that no,
every person on the heart,
the Spanish sign language, is a more the tone.
Enjoy it or prefer more the Spanish sign language interpreter
and skin on a screen because of different reasons.
And one of the reasons was that in both scenes we have several
people talking not at the same time, but we have dialogs.
So yeah.
Marks that the roles, were they same.
So maybe that could interfere in the in the study.
We don't. Know know.
So yeah I'm well is the sign language interpreter not me
but as he could identify maybe some improvements
that could be done in that sign language.
Interpreter Even though we think that is a very positive initiative to
to included on
something that the Black Friends group had in mind to it.
Thank you. I think.
To and.
Q One more question.
Just because you are who you are.
What if I'm like calling everyone
from lunch?
I mean, we can discuss this extra of.
Yes, maybe let's. Do this.
Great presentation, great talk and I'll ask my question.
Mm. Okay.
Yeah.
I was very happy to see sign language interpreting, so we're very happy.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
Thank you, everyone.