Prepare a test script for checking live speech translations

A test pack with numbered utterances, delivery cues, expected meaning, scoring rules and a blank results sheet.

Choose one of three approaches. The steps for that option appear below.

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Claude: arranges the script and run sheet

Claude arranges your checked utterances into a script and blank run sheet. You and the reviewer keep every meaning.

  1. You

    Choose situations and utterances

  2. Claude

    Arrange the script draft

  3. You

    Approve wording and meanings

  4. Claude

    Lay out run sheet

  5. You

    Sign off the pack

  1. Choose the situations and utterances

    Use: You

    Have ready: your own sample utterances, the language pair and dialect, and the intended setting. Number the utterances U1 onward.

    Check

    The reviewer checks each utterance is natural and records the intended meaning without relying on an AI translation.

  2. Arrange the script draft

    Use: Claude

    Ask Claude to group the utterances by test purpose into a draft script table, with gaps marked 'still to confirm'.

    Details

    What to paste into the tool

    Task: A draft test script for a later human-run speech translation check. Use only my supplied utterances and stated setting. Group them by test purpose such as ordinary requests, numbers, negation or ambiguity only where the supplied text supports that label. Output test ID, source utterance ID, exact source wording, speaker cue, meaning to preserve, and a blank reviewer note. Do not add target-language translations, new facts, test results or unsupported claims about a product. Mark gaps: still to confirm. Do not run, record or send anything. Brief and utterances: [paste the brief and numbered utterances].

  3. Approve the wording and meanings

    Use: You

    Check the draft against your original utterances and the reviewer's meaning notes; correct cues.

    Check

    Compare every line with its source. Reject invented words or claims a service passed. The reviewer supplies the expected meanings.

  4. Lay out the blank run sheet

    Use: Claude

    Ask Claude to lay out a numbered run sheet and blank score table from the checked script and your scale.

    Details

    What to paste into the tool

    Task: A run sheet and blank scoring table for a later speech translation test. Preserve every approved utterance and expected meaning exactly. Use my supplied scale and label unconfirmed criteria: still to confirm. Add columns for test ID, language direction, delivery cue, observed translation, meaning preserved, numbers and units preserved, omissions, and reviewer notes. Leave all observations and scores blank. Do not predict quality, invent timings, translate the answer key or run a tool. Checked script and scale: [paste the checked script, human meanings and chosen scale].

  5. Sign off the preparation pack

    Use: You

    Check the run sheet and blank score table against the checked script before signing off.

    Check

    Check no utterance or meaning changed, IDs align, result cells blank. The reviewer clears the pack; no test has run.

Before you paste into any AI tool, remove any confidential information. Put it back at the end.

Tools in this workflow

Deciding between ChatGPT and Claude for this? See the comparison.

Final check

Review every assistant reply before it enters the next step.

Leave results blank; no live translation check has been run.

Check the result against your original inputs. Approve it before sharing or acting.

What still needs checking
  • The user's language pair, dialects, intended setting and reviewer are not known until supplied.
  • Use only material safe to disclose.
  • The later translation service, microphone permissions, consent process, measured delay and accuracy are outside this preparation.
  • Capabilities of the assistants named here come only from the quoted vendor pages; nothing beyond those quotes has been checked.
  • Option A is the default for a person with checked utterances, not a performance ranking.

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