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Elements and Performance Criteria

1. Prepare for audiovisual transcription
   • Confirm client requirements including protocols and procedures and their implications for personal capacity to undertake the assignment.
   • Check resources and equipment and address problems through agreed processes.
   • Review source material to confirm context and identify and address issues arising.
2. Prepare transcripts of source material
   • Attend actively to source material to become familiar with speakers and context.
   • Record notes in target language and begin building a glossary to support the translation task.
   • Apply strategies to address problems of understanding, including identifying potentially hidden or implied meaning of utterances.
   • Prepare summaries of source material in the required language.
   • Collaborate with team members to discuss and clarify issues and identify sections of source material to be translated
   • Attend to source material and prepare source language transcripts, applying conventions, including time codes.
3. Draft translation of transcripts of source material
   • Analyse and identify translation difficulties in source material, seeking assistance if required.
   • Refer to and update assignment-specific glossaries and make critical use of other reference material to identify meaning in context.
   • Identify areas requiring further research and seek required information or specialist advice.
   • Prepare draft translation of transcripts in the register of the source material, as appropriate for context and end use.
4. Check draft translations of transcripts
   • Check translation for consistency, accuracy and fitness for purpose
   • Identify and correct errors, fidelity issues and unsupported translation decisions.
   • Collaborate with appropriate advisers to obtain independent quality control and assess and incorporate changes to identified translation errors.
5. Finalise translation
   • Use technology to format translation according to agreed specifications and end use requirements.
   • Proofread translation and finalise according to assignment requirements.
   • Complete any necessary supporting documentation according to client requirements.
   • Return source material according to agreed procedures and timeframe.
   • Secure assignment related documentation.
   • Consider and implement adjustments to improve process and outcomes of future translations of transcripts.
6. Prepare for audiovisual transcription
   • Confirm client requirements including protocols and procedures and their implications for personal capacity to undertake the assignment.
   • Check resources and equipment and address problems through agreed processes.
   • Review source material to confirm context and identify and address issues arising.
7. Prepare transcripts of source material
   • Attend actively to source material to become familiar with speakers and context.
   • Record notes in target language and begin building a glossary to support the translation task.
   • Apply strategies to address problems of understanding, including identifying potentially hidden or implied meaning of utterances.
   • Prepare summaries of source material in the required language.
   • Collaborate with team members to discuss and clarify issues and identify sections of source material to be translated
   • Attend to source material and prepare source language transcripts, applying conventions, including time codes.
8. Draft translation of transcripts of source material
   • Analyse and identify translation difficulties in source material, seeking assistance if required.
   • Refer to and update assignment-specific glossaries and make critical use of other reference material to identify meaning in context.
   • Identify areas requiring further research and seek required information or specialist advice.
   • Prepare draft translation of transcripts in the register of the source material, as appropriate for context and end use.
9. Check draft translations of transcripts
   • Check translation for consistency, accuracy and fitness for purpose
   • Identify and correct errors, fidelity issues and unsupported translation decisions.
   • Collaborate with appropriate advisers to obtain independent quality control and assess and incorporate changes to identified translation errors.
10. Finalise translation
    • Use technology to format translation according to agreed specifications and end use requirements.
    • Proofread translation and finalise according to assignment requirements.
    • Complete any necessary supporting documentation according to client requirements.
    • Return source material according to agreed procedures and timeframe.
    • Secure assignment related documentation.
    • Consider and implement adjustments to improve process and outcomes of future translations of transcripts.

Performance Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified, the candidate must demonstrate evidence of performance of the following on at least two occasions.

producing transcripts in the language of the source material that are faithful to the delivery of the original, including errors of grammar and syntax and prosodic features of speech

noting duration of pauses and assigning time codes

analysing spoken and coded language for meaning and identifying intonation and stress

translating transcripts with reference to time codes

applying client requirements relating to translated transcripts of audiovisual recordings, including style guides

using office and other technology to prepare and format source language transcripts and target language translations

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Knowledge Evidence

Evidence required to demonstrate competence must satisfy all of the requirements of the elements and performance criteria. If not otherwise specified, the depth of knowledge demonstrated must be appropriate to the job context of the candidate.

translating conventions and style rules related to translation of transcripts

time code conventions

transcription techniques and principles

purpose and potential use of diverse transcript translations

rules of evidence

range of resources, tools and equipment appropriate to transcription and translation task

specialist terminology related to the assignment context

secure file management and record keeping

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