Il contributo dell’accessibilità per sordi alla resocontazione / The contribution of accessibility for deaf people to reporting

In our age of artificial intelligence, technology pervades every single human activity and human-machine interaction is now daily practice. In the area of diamesic translation, this has led to important distinctions in workflows, greatly reducing human intervention in many fields including institutional ones. However, and while it is clear that technology is here to stay, the stages that marked this journey often lie forgotten in end-of-project reports, published online and then removed at the end of the project itself. In an attempt to reconstruct the path that led to the pervasive role of technology in the production phases of translation, from speech to writing, this article suggests a quadripartition of human-machine interaction and illustrates two important Italian research projects, which implemented speech recognition technology in the production of pre-recorded, real-time subtitles. On the basis of these experiments, this article highlights the advancement of automation in the field of accessibility on one hand, which guarantees speed and accuracy=, and on the other underlines the contribution that accessibility has made to society in terms of flexibility and of the transparency of democratic and legislative processes.