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Before you begin the Breath Pause Back Translate work, take a moment to review the role, here.

1. Listen to the set to decide which segment you would like to record. Use the white arrow to move within the Select player. The first segment is usually a good place to start.

2. Select a segment to work on by clicking on the waveform. The section will turn bright blue.

3. Click Next.

You will now be at the Breath Pause Back Translation Record page. After you have moved through all of the steps of recording your back translation, your screen will look like this:

1. Home button
2. Set title
3. Translation audio player
    A. Play button
    B. Append button
    C. Undo button
    D. Divide button
4. Recorder
5. Submit button
6. Select button

As on your other pages in Breath Pause Back Translate, you can click Home (1) to go to your Home page. You can look at the Set Title to see what set you are working on.

The translation audio that you selected is loaded into the player (3) with button options. Your first step will be to play it (3a). If there is more audio in this passage, the Append button (3b) will be dark blue and you can add the next piece. If you append but want to go back to the smaller pieces, you can undo your append with the Undo button (3c). Lastly, you can cut the segment into smaller pieces with the Divide (knife) button (3d).

You have a recorder (4) where you will record your breath pause back translation. Once you are done recording and are ready to pass your breath pause back translation, press the Submit button (5). If at any time you want to go back to the Select page, press the Select button (6).

Steps of Breath Pause Back Translation:

1. Click the yellow Play button to listen to the portion you selected. You can scrub (move) backward if you need to re-listen to a part, but you will not be able to scrub forward until you listen to the entire piece.

Note: If you want to select a different passage from the Breath Pause Back Translation Record page, press Select and you will be brought back to the Select page.

2. Listen to the translation reference audio as many times as needed in order to do a breath pause back translation.

3. Press the yellow Record button and speak your breath pause back translation into your microphone.

4. Press Stop.

5. Press the yellow Play button to listen to your back translation of the passage. You can scrub backward if you need to re-listen to a part, but you will not be able to scrub forward until you listen to your entire breath pause back translation.

6. Listen and compare your back translation to the translation team’s recording as many times as needed.

7. If you would like to record again, you need to delete what you recorded. Hit the Delete button.

8. You will now have a yellow Record button. Follow steps two through six above until you have a breath pause back translation you would like to submit.

9. When you are happy with your breath pause back translation, click Submit.

As you saw on the Select page, the set is automatically split up into smaller segments based on where the translator paused and took a breath. There may be times when the segments stop or start in odd places or are too long or too short. You can change this audio in the source player by using the different buttons on the player.

APPEND BUTTON
The Append (plus) button allows you to add the next segment to your current reference audio. The append button will be dark blue when you have pieces later in the passage to add. If you are on the last piece of the passage, the append button will be inactive gray as you cannot add a piece from the next passage. If you have a blue append button and would like to use it, follow these steps.

1. Press the yellow Play button on the reference audio.
2. If you want to add to your translation audio segment, press the append button.
3. Press the yellow play button for the reference audio.
4. Repeat steps one through three until you are happy with your appended source.
5. Listen to the translation reference audio as many times as needed to do a breath pause back translation.
6. Press the yellow record button and speak your breath pause back translation into your microphone.
7. Press stop.
8. Press the yellow play button to listen to your retell back translation of the passage. You can scrub backward if you need to re-listen to a part, but you will not be able to scrub forward until you listen to your entire retell back translation.
9. Listen and compare your back translation to the translation team’s recording as many times as needed.
10. If you would like to re-record, you need to delete what you just recorded. Hit the delete button.
11. You will now have a yellow record button. Follow steps five through nine above until you have a breath pause back translation you would like to submit.
12. When you are satisfied with your breath pause back translation, click Submit.

UNDO BUTTON
The undo button will become active once you have used the append button described previously. The undo button will remove the most recent piece that you appended to the player. If you appended multiple pieces, you can undo all of these pieces by continuing to press the undo button. If you undo a piece, follow the steps outlined previously to record your breath pause back translation.  

KNIFE BUTTON
The divide (knife) button will be active on every player in breath pause back translate after you have listened through the entire translation audio source. The knife button allows you to cut the segment into smaller pieces. You can use the knife button on any segment—the segment you are given, one you appended, or one you appended and then clicked undo.

To cut a segment into smaller pieces:
1.Click on the knife button. You will be brought to the Divide page:

2.Click on the yellow Play button.

3.Click pause where you would like to make a division. If you paused too early or too late, you can press play and pause again. Alternatively, move the scrubber (the green line) to the spot you would like.

4.Click on the yellow Knife button to create a cut in that spot. Your page may look like this:

The dark blue shaded box is the cut portion that will now be your translation source.

5. Press play to listen to your new translation source.

6. If you need to change your cut slightly, hold down the white triangle and move it to include or exclude the portion you would like. If you need to make a significant change to the cut, click the Undo button—the arrow circling left—and repeat steps two through five.

7. Once you are satisfied with the placement of your cut, press Record.

You are now back at the Breath Pause Record page.

8. Follow the steps (top of article) to record your breath pause back translation.

9. Click Submit.

You are now automatically given the next portion of the segment that you cut.

Once you've submitted each passage, Render will take you to a Review Page. Learn more here.