[verga]

I actually think this clown has done us a favor of sorts: these sign language hucksters are just for show anyway, designed to make the organizers of a given event look compassionate. It’s always been a form of applied liberalism.

Maybe in some cases, but I live in an areas with a High deaf population. We also have the only re-creation of Shakespeare's Black Friar theater. Once a season they bring in deaf interpreters for each play and get a tremendous response. Also Most of the Churches have interpreters for one service/ week. But as I said we have a very large deaf population due to having a Deaf school here.

[C. Edmund Wright]

To clarify, there are of course legitimate situations - and I’m all in favor of those - but the political events largely have this for show……just like this one.

[PapaBear3625]

Maybe in some cases, but I live in an areas with a High deaf population. We also have the only re-creation of Shakespeare's Black Friar theater. Once a season they bring in deaf interpreters for each play and get a tremendous response. Also Most of the Churches have interpreters for one service/ week. But as I said we have a very large deaf population due to having a Deaf school here.

These days, wouldn't it make more sense, and be more of service to those whose hearing is getting bad, but who never learned sign language, to just have "closed captioning" text projected on a screen above the performers?

[PapaBear3625]

Going a bit further, I would think there would be a market for porting “speech to text” software (like Dragon) into a mobile phone. You could even connect it to Google Glass to provide a “heads up display” so the hard-of-hearing person could look at the person being talked to, and see the text of what the person is saying.

[AlexisHeavyMetal1981]

Maybe in some cases, but I live in an areas with a High deaf population

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“High Deaf”. Is that like audio at 192kHz 24bit resolution?