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SignMe
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Sign language interpreting in Teams in under 30 seconds
The Problem
Host organisations
- Responsibility to provide sign language interpreters lies with the host in scenarios like the NHS. This is not always well known
- Organisations with a passion for inclusion often want to arrange interpreters but don't know how to do it
- They are unsure who provides the service
- There is no central booking system to locate interpreters theclosest is a Twitter bot
- The VRS platforms are unfamiliar
- Sometimes it's a last minute process
- There aren't enough interpreters the ratio of interpreters to deaf sign language users is 1:75 in the UK so it's tough at the best of times
- Finding an interpreter even with two weeks' notice can be impossible
VRS providers
- Maximising interpreter availability is key interoperability between VRS providers would help
- Building and customising bespoke video relay services (VRS) platforms can be costly and time consuming
- The platform build cost is cash that might be better spent elsewhere like training more terps
Wouldn't it be good if the host could get a sign language interpreter into a Teams meeting is under a minute?
Meet SignMe, a Teams app powered by Microsoft Azure.
- VRS companies sign up to the platform in under ten minutes, providing simple details
- Organisations select who their framework agreement for VRS is with
- The host organisation simply types 'request interpreter' into theSignMe bot which will do the rest
- Deaf users get to choose the on call interpreter
- Or they can do a future booking
- All this happens in seconds
- The VRS provider receives a log of calls
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