It has been a busy week for me. I have written 10,000 to 15,000 Chinese words and 10,000 English words for the translation and transcription work for the week.
The transcription work is particularly fun, for I am working on my favourite language pair: Cantonese to English. At my normal speed, for a video / audio file of 40 to 70 minutes, I can transcribe into English within 8 to 12 hours. With a proofreading for an hour or two on the next morning, I can send the file back to the client.
Cantonese legal transcription, such as the clips of Hong Kong lawyers discussing laws and cases of the territory, will require more time.
The Cantonese file I am working on is a business audio recording and I completed it within my usual turnaround time. But since the client requires timestamp of each sentence, I have to work through the weekend to get all timestamp records done.
Thankfully, a new song of Kay Tse (謝安琪) accompanied me throughout the transcription work. I let the song play concurrently, so when I paused the business record to transcribe into English lines, the song is still playing.
Still need the hard work for the weekend but since I am working on Cantonese, I am still happy to get it done. Let’s see what I can achieve when I allocate 12 hours for work today.
謄寫與時間碼
本週確係相當忙碌。為了應付翻譯工作，我五日之內寫了一萬至一萬五千個中文字，英文字則有一萬字，當中有八千多個英文字是一日之內完成。
之所以需要一日寫八千多個英文字，是因為我必須完成我最喜愛的粵譯英謄寫。一般來說，長度40至70分鐘的商業錄音，我可以於八小時至十二小時之內完成。若對話內容是大律師討論香港法律或評論法庭裁決，則需要更長時間謄寫英文。
這次的商業錄音我寫了一日，翌日早上讀過一次就交稿了。只是客戶希望逐句記錄時間標記，於是我又需要趁週末繼續努力。確幸的是，我一直讓謝安琪新歌反覆重播，每每需要暫停錄音作謄寫的時候，耳機還傳來她的歌聲。
週末需要工作確實辛苦一些，但為了心愛的粵語，又有粵語歌陪伴我，且看今日騰出十二小時專心工作可有更佳成績。
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