Posted on 05/01/2021 9:31:25 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
I've always wondered about the accuracy of sign language interpreters especially since a number of them have been revealed as not knowing what they are doing. In this video we have the opportunity to compare the TWO, count 'em TWO, sign language interpreters for Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer.
One of the sign interpreters is Whitmer's regular who is standing next to her. The other sign interpreter appears to be the one provided by Detroit channel 4 station WDIV-TV. Why they decided they needed an ADDITIONAL sign language interpreter is beyond me but this gives us the opportunity to observe two such signers interpreting the same speech at the same time. In order to make it easier to make the comparison, after you see a little over a minute of the Whitmer speech at regular speed, I replayed it at half speed for your analysis. To my untrained eye, although some of the sign language gestures seem to match, a lot of them don't even factoring in the fact that they are probably a bit out of synch with each other.
What say you?
Exit question: Isn't it easier and more accurate to just read the closed captions?
PING!
I like the one on the left ....
Do you remember the sign language interpreter standing next to Obama when he went to Africa?
The kid was a total fraud making nonsensical movements over and over.
That was funny
RTFLMAO!!!
The one on the left I did a video about before but I am still curious if what the TWO sign language interpreters are doing actually match up. I see a lot of discrepancy but, again, I m no sign language expert.
I think they seem to match up pretty well. The timing may be off.
After all, she may be going by a prepared speech and practiced, but he may actually be listening and thus, lagging.
I’m not an ASL person. Just going by watching it.
I noticed he did the jabbing in the arm gesture a few times where she did NOT.
I’m still curious as to why sign language interpreters are preferred over just putting the text along the bottom.
In this case there is close captioned text on the bottom.
Great point, considering sign language is not universal interpretation.
One of them is using cursive.
BOTH are just attention-grabbing “woke-handicapped-whoring” distractions. Typical of today’s politicians. “LOOK AT ME” culture.
With the closed captions to compare against, perhaps we actually have four versions: Her speech (and its lies), the first sign-speaker, the second sign interpreter (perhaps in SPanish ??), and the closed caption.
A fifth (the pre-printed press release) and sixth (the “summarized” post-speech mayonaise version repeated by the media, and the seventh (the truth) will be different from each other as well.
Seems like a duplicate. The Governor has a sign language interpreter at all of her speeches. The network have their own interpreter each time there’s a COVID-19 hearing by the state government.
Stereo for the deaf.
Probably for all the times that CC is wrong.
I mean, we got “76 tropical storm bones” for “76 Trombones” on the July 4 broadcast the other year.
oh come on
you needed to know about those 76 tropical storm bones
what if they came your way?...
/s
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