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Professional interpretation requires a human interpreter, this is true now and it will be for the foreseeable future. It will take a long time for the technology to catch up and provide the level of quality and accuracy that an interpreter can provide. Professional interpretation will remain the standard for courthouses, churches, international conferences, and any other setting where it is vital that communication flows as smoothly as it would if everyone spoke the same language. For these cont …

Times have changed. The way in which we handle interactions with other people outside our home has been affected by the recent pandemic and replaced by a completely new set of rules and guidelines for our own safety. Any communication that used to be accomplished by standing near a person to tell them something private in a public space now will need to be done differently as you may risk catching the virus from a sick person who may cough, sneeze, or talk, and their droplets may land in your mo …

ADA Assistive Listening: The Americans with Disabilities Act from 1990 requires all local, county, state, and federal government agencies as well as privately run companies with 15 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities as long this doesn’t create “undue hardship” or a “direct threat” to the employer. Among those accommodations are the provision of the necessary equipment for assistive listening to the hearing impaired. Libraries, recreational v …

Executives are used to comfortable meeting rooms, in which communication is simple and direct, but from time to time they need to make visits to factory floors or assemble lines, where many different factors will affect being able to carry out a straight forward conversation. These places are often noisy due to loud machinery that oblige workers to talk at the top of their voices to be heard. Uneven space can be a restricting factor as well, especially in cases where groups of 10 or more executi …

Having to move around in a foreign country where you don’t speak the local language and most of the people you may come across won’t understand even basic English can be a hassle. Finding yourself lost and having to ask for directions, ordering a meal at a restaurant, telling a cab driver where you need to go or even greeting people can turn into stressful situations without the ability to communicate simple phrases across. So once again technology can come to the rescue, this time in the f …