Creating Multiterm project terminology:

Step by step instructions

http://www.trworkshop.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=38434




http://concentr.trworkshop.net/

http://andrew.trworkshop.net/

Back Up

How to Back Up a Hard Drive

from :EHow

Needed:

• CD-R Discs/CD-RW Discs/Blank DVD Discs and CD-RW Burners , or
• Mass storage device
  
• Hard Disks
• Microsoft Windows XP

1. Step 1

   Insert your Windows XP CD into the drive and double click it when it pops up on your desktop.

2. Step 2

   In Windows Explorer, double-click the ValueAdd folder, then Msft, and then Ntbackup.

3. Step 3

   Double-click Ntbackup.msi to install the Backup utility.

4. Step 4

   Click Backup to run Microsoft's Backup program.

How to Run the Backup Utility

5. Step 1

   Click Start, point to All Programs, point to Accessories, point to System Tools, and then click Backup to start the wizard.

6. Step 2

   Click “Next” to skip past the opening page, choose Back up files and settings from the second page, and then click Next.

7. Step 3

   Decide whether you want to back up everything or just certain things.

8. Step 4

   Decide where you want the backups saved to.

9. Step 5

   Set a schedule for regular backups.

Sometimes, when many programs are installed and and it is requires a lot of time and energy to reinstall each single program, backing up the whole computer is a better option.

How to Backup a Whole Computer

Needed:

• File backup software like Norton Ghost or Macrium Reflect
• Storage Medium like a USB Hard Drive

Instructions

1. Step 1

   The first step is to figure out where you will be backing up the computer to. You need an external hard drive with enough space to store a full backup. To determine how much space you need on a Windows PC, go to My Computer, right-click the drive, and click on "Properties". From there, click on the "General" tab, and look at the size of the drive. If there are multiple drives on the computer, figure out the total size of all the hard drives. Buy an external (USB) hard drive that's at least twice the size of your computer's hard drives.

2. Step 2

   Once you have the hard drive, you must acquire backup software. There are several options available, like Norton Ghost and Macrium Reflect. Each piece of software is similar, but Macrium Reflect has a free edition, which will be used for this article. A download link is in the "Resources" section, located near the bottom of the page. Follow the instructions on screen to install the software.

3. Step 3

   Plug in the USB drive, following the manufacturer's instructions, and then load the backup software. Once you have the software loaded, you must create a new backup. In Macrium Reflect Free Edition, click on the "Create a backup image of an entire disk or selected partition(s)" button. Read the instructions on screen and select the disks to backup. You will need to select the backup location as well; make sure you select the USB hard drive!

4. Step 4

   Run the backup. The backup will take a long time, depending on the size of the hard drive. Once the whole backup has been completed, exit the backup program.

5. Step 5

   You can also backup to an online server. There are many online services that will do this for you; a great one is Mozy, which is linked in the "Resources" section of this article.

File extentions and opening them

7Z - Открывается в 7-Zip

.CDR - Открывается в CorelDRAW

.CDW - Открывается в КОМПАС (скачать с depositfiles)

.DjV - Открывается в WinDjVu

.DjVu - Открывается в WinDjVu

.DOC - Открывается в Microsoft Word XP/2003

.DOCX - Открывается в Microsoft Word 2007

.DWG - Открывается в AutoCAD

.FB2 - Открывается в Cool Reader или в Haali Reader

.GRB - Открывается в TFlex

.HTML, .HTM - Открываются в браузерах Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox или Opera

.IBK - Открывается в ICE Book Reader Professional

.MCD - Открывается в MathCAD

.ODF - Открывается в OpenOffice Calc

.ODT - Открывается в OpenOffice Writer

.PDF - Открывается в Adobe Reader

.PPT - Открывается в Microsoft PowerPoint XP/2003

.PPTX - Открывается в Microsoft PowerPoint 2007

.RAR - Открывается в WinRar

.TIF - Открывается в AcdSee

.TXT - Открывается в блокноте

.XLS - Открывается в Microsoft Excel XP/2003

.XLSX - Открывается в Microsoft Excel 2007

.VSD - Открывается в Microsoft Visio

.ZIP - Открывается в WinRar, WinZip или проводнике

КОМПАС - http://depositfiles.com/files/s663hmhbx (программа бесплатная, поэтому такую ссылку нашел)
WinRar - http://www.win-rar.ru/
WinZip - http://www.winzip.com/downwz.htm

Interpretation

Online courses:

http://site.interpretereducationonline.com/programs/

Skill building exercises:

http://acebo.com/rts.htm

Court interpreting:

www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Court-Interpretation-Theory-Practice/dp/0890894140

www.acebo.com.

http://nci.arizona.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=52&Itemid=59

http://www.acebo.com/e21.htm


http://www.proz.com/forum/interpreting/79927-online_audio_texts_for_conference_interpreting_practice.html



http://discours-publics.vie-publique.fr/rechlogos/servlet/RechServlet?_page=RECH_AV&_type=NEW

http://www.euromed10.org/documents.asp?lang=fra

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speechbank.htm

http://www.proz.com/forum/interpreting/78995-looking_for_medical_interpretation_training.html

You might also buy from ACEBO the videos on consecutive note taking, interpreter's ethics and criminal procedure. That is, if you have extra money to spend, as each video is $38.

http://www.ncsconline.org/wc/CourTopics/ResourceGuide.asp?topic=CtInte

http://www.prometric.com/California/CACourtIntPrep.htm

Telephone interpreting:

http://www.proz.com/forum/interpreting/131303-telephone_intepreting%3A_experiences_technical_issues.html

Monterey Institute of International Studies
www.aiic.net.

http://translate.miis.edu/

http://www.proz.com/forum/interpreting/122498-simultaneous_interpreting_keeping_up.html

http://www.proz.com/forum/interpreting/121199-need_help_finding_medical_interpretation_training.html

Links


These are the useful links:

www.cucumis.org - translator's virtual association. Many professional translators will help to translate and you can practice and help somebody as well.

www.torrents.ru

http://www.transabacus.com/ - words counting software

Some ways to find work...

Most well-known websites:

www.proz.com
(paying or non-paying possible)

www.onehourtranslation.com
(payment of 1$ with Paypal or a card)

www.translatorscafe.com (Isnt' the name cozy?!)
(paying or non paying)

www.translationdirectory.com
(free)

www.trally.com
(only paying)

www.traduguide.com
(paying or non paying)

www.aquarius.com
(free)

www.trworkshop.net
(free, a website for Russian speakers)

www.translatorsbase.com
(only paying members)

www.TQ.com

www.translatorspub.com
( a website with postings from far away places that have limited access to the internet. Many times it is a on-site jobs)

http://jobs.worldwideworkathome.com/medical-transcription.html

http://www.translationstafffinder.com/jobseekers.html

http://www.translatorstown.com/index.html

Job for interpreters:

http://jobs.worldwideworkathome.com/medical-transcription.html

http://jobsearch.money.cnn.com/a/all-jobs/list/q-Translators+Needed/




More work and more and more

http://foreignword.biz/jobs/Default.aspx

http://language123.com/

http://www.getafreelancer.com/sellers/

Faster...

Examples might be:

- Advanced use of CAT tools (ultra-large TMs, MultiTerm, glossaries converted into TMs, etc.)
- Find and replace macros (run on Unclean Trados files, for example)
- Glossary macros
- Templates
- Collaborative solutions
Powerful PC with 2 large screens (each 24")
- Electronic dictionaries, including my own specialised glossaries
- Medium-sized TMs, pruned from time to time of useless terminology. I find that ultra-large TMs give too many matches, so it is hard to find good ones. As we say in English, you can't see the wood for the trees.
- Speech recognition. Perhaps my single most effective technique. Translating a well-written text in a subject I am familiar with with a well-trained microphone can be highly productive.
3. Fast typing.
4. 9-10 hours of continuous work, no distractions
What I like to do is create an Unclean Word file (translate it first using a blank TM), hide the Source text and do lots of find and replace on terms/expressions. Only the Target text is replaced, so the source is intact. Obviously, you have to be careful, as with any find and replace!
* My CAT tool (Wordfast)
* My CD dictionaries (I have four)
* My fast internet (well, fast enough)
* My browser, built for speed (Opera)
* My word processor's spell-checker (underlines)
* My headphones and such musicians as Vaakevandring, Slechtvalk etc
* My high chair
* Mugs and mugs of liquid chicory (or coffee, if chicory is unavailable)
I also set myself targets of what to get through in 50 minute sessions, using the rest of the hour to answer emails, get up to stretch, make a cup of tea, whatever.
'We've got a specialist for legal stuff who often posts in the forums who claims a typical daily output of somewhere around 10,000 words a day. As far as I know she does most of her work with voice input and sticks strictly to the subject she knows best and practiced as an attorney.'


Voice input: I use remote-location digital audio-typists - a service now offered on the Internet - at up to 110 words a minute who have a strong legal and medical background. Advantages over VRS/voice recognition systems like Dragon:

1. far less installation space required for Olympus, Grundig and Philips transcription kits;

2. having worked together for over 20 years, we can turn around about 2,000 words an hour: I dictate Romance faster than Germanic.

3. a built-in editor: a VRS asks the 'dictator' neither if the output makes sense, nor picks up on source-language words, clauses, paras. or even entire pages omitted in the translation.

4. no need to dictate lists of figures and numbers in tables, such as annual reports and accounts.

5. disadvantage: erosion of profit margin through typists' charges.

At work I use www.oxfordreference.com, which is quite good for English reference material.

Regarding voice recognition software, how easy it is to switch across languages?

I believe that with some of them (like Dragon), you have to close the application and start it again to switch languages, which is really a pain if you want to use it to dictate in your target languages and, at the same time, to make searches in your source language.
Yes. A portable digital dictaphone like a Grundig Digta - no need to be chained to the PC with e.g. a Philips Speechmike microphone - can input the dictation to a PC which serves as a dictation station. Sound files are stored and retrieved at will.

The huge, albeit compressed, voice file as a .wav is then emailed - by ISDN or pref. by ultra-fast Broadband - to the audio-typist's PC at a remote location. Normally, on most transcription kits, 1 hour of dictation generates a 6MB voice file.

The translation files emailed back can still be forwarded to an outside editor - but further eroding the profit margin.

There are Internet audio-typing transcription agencies advertising themselves. The target-audience seems to be mainly legal and secondarily medical and accounting, the latter being more of a number-crunching profession.

It has long been proven that, unless the translator is an extremely fast touch-typist, it's possible to dictate/speak 7 times faster than typing/keyboarding. Output must at least double, incrementally again over the years if you have no dictation recording practice, on the assumption that the work is there in the first place.

Audio Transcription terminology

At BBC Monitoring, it is standard practice to put ("word indistinct"), ("3 words indistinct") ("passage of about 20 words indistinct"), etc., using round brackets.

1. If you cannot understand what a speaker says, put (inaudible) or (several inaudible words) as applicable.
2. If a speaker is interrupted put --
3. If a speaker tails off then put …

International virtual keyboard at http://www.gate2home.com/

Russian keyboard www.translit.ru

Give me that transcription!

Audio CD

1.

This is a very convenient format, as most players, even the cheap ones, will feature immediate-action play and pause functions, as well as fast fwd-rev cueing. If you are lucky to get a client offering the audio files in this format, take them after having checked that your off-computer player actually has those features and they work well.

I don't recommend using the computer CD-ROM drive to play them while transcribing, since you will have to mouse-click on the screen to start and stop all the time.

One useful bit of information is that CD audio files (*.cda) are just slightly modified computer audio (*.wav) files. While it's generally not worthwhile to burn audio CDs from, say, cassette tapes, if you don't have an off-the-PC CD player, a solution is to convert the CD audio files into *.wav files on your hard disk. There is plenty of software, even shareware that can do the job. I use an old version of DART CD-Recorder (US$ 29.95 from http://www.dartpro.com) just because I have it and because it does a lot more than this; I bought it for other purposes. But the freeware Express Scribe (see below) does it as well.


2.

Audio computer files

These will usually be either *.wav or *.mp3.

If you receive them via Internet, beware of *.wav files: they are immense compared to the playing time. To provide some reference, one CD-ROM can hold up to 80 minutes of audio or 700 MB, i.e. 8.75 MB per minute of playing time. Of course, there are ways to make a *.wav file smaller (mono, lower sampling rate), but not as small as MP3 with compression.

So, if you are to download or receive by e-mail audio files, ask for them in MP3 format.

3.

A very useful tool for transcribing *.wav, *.mp3 and many other audio files (audio CD tracks included) is a program named Express Scribe (freeware from http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html). You might even buy or build your own foot control for it; otherwise you can use programmable keys on your keyboard to play, stop, and rewind. It also offers variable playing speed for slowing down fast talkers.

I had been using electrically-controlled (immediate start/stop) quarter-inch tape open-reel recorders for this kind of work (actually translating videos for dubbing) for 15 years before I got Express Scribe. Quite frankly, I felt no difference between them and using Express Scribe; the switch-over was immediate and effortless. However such bulky open reel recorders have been discontinued for ages.

A very useful tool for transcribing *.wav, *.mp3 and many other audio files (audio CD tracks included) is a program named Express Scribe (freeware from http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html). You might even buy or build your own foot control for it; otherwise you can use programmable keys on your keyboard to play, stop, and rewind. It also offers variable playing speed for slowing down fast talkers.

I had been using electrically-controlled (immediate start/stop) quarter-inch tape open-reel recorders for this kind of work (actually translating videos for dubbing) for 15 years before I got Express Scribe. Quite frankly, I felt no difference between them and using Express Scribe; the switch-over was immediate and effortless. However such bulky open reel recorders have been discontinued for ages.

By José Henrique Lamensdorf

4.

a (free) program called f4 which basically is a simple text editor window that also allows you to stop/start the audio from the same window (by pushing F something or other). It also gives you the option of hitting one of the F-keys to enter the initials of the speakers. When done with the text, you simply paste it into Word to use the spell checker and do any formatting that might be necessary. http://audiotranskription.de/

5.

Slowing down speech

Jul 5

Apart from a foot pedal, a program that would slow down the speech tempo without altering its pitch might help. You can probably type along with the spoken text or at least don't have to "rewind" quite as often.

WMP allows you to slow down sound files (Now playing > Enhancements > Play Speed Settings).

Other programs are the Amazing Slow Downer or Transcribe, programs available for 30 or 40 dollars, which allow you much more flexibility in changing basically every aspect of a sound file.

BTW the current Beta version of Real Player has a slow down function. Just download it

6.

Transcription software

Jul 5

I use a free programme called Express Scribe. It can be controlled from the keyboard or a foot pedal and can be set to play at a range of different speeds and is compatible with most digital audio formats. It's well worth investing in the foot pedal though as it almost doubled my productivity.

7.

I use Subtitle Workshop. It's a freeware and it supports translation too in the same screen. You can save the file as txt and then copy it to word for spell checking.

8.

There is a new option called "Mini Scribe" which allows you to work directly into Word or any other program. It came with a fun typing tutorial, which reminded me that even though I type quite fast with 7 or 8 fingers, maybe at some point I should learn how to use all of them.

9.

here is the URL of slow downer http://www.ronimusic.com/

you can download a trial copy there, to see if it would be useful to you. It's great for musicians wanting to explore solos, etc.