Posted on 12/04/2017 12:32:54 PM PST by Strac6
As authorities in Tampa announced the arrest of a suspected serial killer last week, hearing-impaired people tuning into the news conference got quite a different message from an American Sign Language interpreter.
Instead of getting a rundown from Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan on the timeline of the four shootings and what led up to the arrest of 24-year-old Howell Emanuel Donaldson III, interpreter Derlyn Roberts made signs that were gibberish, according to those who watched in confusion.
"She sat up there and waved her arms like she was singing Jingle Bells," Rachell Settambrino, who is deaf and teaches American Sign Language at the University of South Florida, told the Tampa Bay Times through an interpreter.
Among the things Roberts signed, according to Settambrino, were the following: "Fifty-one hours ago, zero 12 22 (indecipherable) murder three minutes in 14 weeks ago in old (indecipherable) murder four five 55,000 plea 10 arrest murder bush (indecipherable) three age 24."
But Dugan was instead describing how his agency received around 5,000 tips before the 24-year-old's arrest.
Tampa Police Department spokeswoman Janelle McGregor told FOX13 Tampa in a statement officials are conducting an internal review because they didn't request an interpreter for the Nov. 28 news conference, and are trying to figure out "if someone requested that she attend or exactly who sent her to provide services."
The incident is the latest example of an apparently unqualified signer appearing at news conferences. In September, as Hurricane Irma approached Florida and officials announced a mandatory evacuation, an interpreter in nearby Manatee County began signing words like "pizza," ''monster" and "bear," along with other gibberish.
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“Er, do you waaaaaaant ... do you waaaaaaaant to come back to my place, bouncy bouncy?”
Whoda taut?
Bell curve graduate on the bong ......
Yes, same woman with 31 priors in her record. Mostly fraud. I’m surprised nobody recognized her. Sounds like she’s been to the Tampa PD many times. Maybe that is why she seemed so at home in the buidling.
I have been using closed captions for 10 or 1 years. News channels I guess use old court recorders or something but YouTube has new software that does real time encoding it is much better than any news I watch.
The excuse given is that the interpreter is there for deaf or hard of hearing press and not necessarily for the home audience.
I’ve noticed that some CC is rife with errors, as if it is software trying to make sense of the noises of humans, and failing. They even skip entire sentences, as if that sentence wasn’t worth the effort.
I rely on CC because I have small, loud children. It’s a godsend.
News Channels are especially bad. I blame it on humans but I don't know for a fact they use humans. I do know that Google has added CC to a lot of their videos and it is all done with speech recognition software and it is quite good. Most DVR boxes let you customize the captions and make them unobtrusive.
If you use Netflix set up the captions, experiment a little and find what works best for you.
I use Casual font, yellow with drop shadow and invisible background, that doesn't seem to bother the rest of the family but stands out well for me.
If you use a cable box you may have to use tech support to get to all the finer adjustments. I have Charter and different does have different hidden codes.
I have a Tivo and it is pretty straight forward easy to adjust the settings. I like the font on the Charter Motorola box much better than the Tivo though.
Why do they still do this ridiculous PC crap? I haven’t seen a TV in years that doesn’t have captions.
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