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The best part of Zoom for deaf people is the automatic captioning. There is one big downside of using generic video chat for signing - it’s usually optimized f
by iav 6y ago
The best part of Zoom for deaf people is the automatic captioning.
There is one big downside of using generic video chat for signing - it’s usually optimized for clear audio, not clear video. When the connection gets weak, Zoom will drop frames but try to preserve audio. For the deaf, dropping audio is of course not a problem but dropping frames means they miss a key word in the sentence.
- medstrom 6y agoThis could be fixed if pinning the interpreter's video feed on your screen gave it priority.
- _nalply 6y agoThere are other problems with video for hearing people. One example is WhatsApp providing an audio record button in the lower right corner of the screen. I always keep hitting the button by mistake. If I had a user script I would remove that button. Another one is recording videos. If there were an embarrasing noise like a fart I would be obliviously send the video to someone hearing.