Re:Show HN: Mob Translate – Translation for Australian Abori...
by hombre_fatal on Tuesday September 15, 2020 @04:10AM
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Good point.
As someone who often took the transcribe-by-hand route on my language projects to sneak in some incidental language practice, you also have to budget for all the typos and inexplicable mistakes you will make.
You're going to have to go line by line in the source either way to proofread, so I recommend machine transcription over ape transcription.
Don't. Or do, but in any event be really clear of your goals. Is your aim to get something done? Then do it the most efficient way (not by hand). Do you want to get a feel for the language? Then hand-type it all, but at the cost of slowing you down greatly.
Decide up front what your goals are else you will mix your goals and try to ride two horses, as the saying goes, and make achieving either much, much harder.
I've made this mistake many times, so take it as wisdom derived from really painful experience. Focus!
(this may come across as lecturing and presumptuous but I've screwed so much up by lack of clear goals and focus).