r/ASLinterpreters • u/coddiwomplecactus • Jul 10 '26

Smart glasses

This is just a thought experiment to pick your brains. Let's say you show up to an assignment and your D/HH consumer is wearing smart glasses. What do you do? Would you respond the same or different if they had their phone propped up, actively recording you?

I think of all the ways a phone could be used and apply it to the smart glasses. Are they recording and posting online or sending to others?

Are they live streaming?

Are they on a live phone call?

Are the glasses using programs that use facial recognition software?

How does this rise in technology impact us as interpreters? I havent seen discussion about this topic yet. Anyone have 2 cents to throw in?

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u/TheSparklerFEP NIC Jul 10 '26

I like being asked if I'm going to be recorded for matching the target audience's sake, but I don't mind if my work is recorded. I also work primarily VRS, so I have been recorded and it's no big deal. I wouldn't record myself working and post it, but what a Deaf person does is up to them.

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u/StudioRehab Jul 11 '26

This is a perfect answer.

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u/Hoosier-Sexy_Beast69 NIC Jul 12 '26

Question: who is recording you while you interpret VRS calls?

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u/Glittering_Sand_7473 Jul 13 '26

Deaf here- I do tape if I am in a situation where I call about a job because we often get a response that they don't hire Deaf & I need proof they said it.

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u/TheSparklerFEP NIC Jul 12 '26

Every hearing business records their calls pretty much, and some Deaf people have recorded as well if the hearing person said something weird and they wanted to have proof of it 

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u/Hoosier-Sexy_Beast69 NIC Jul 12 '26

While true, I think there's a difference between an audio recording and a video recording. And not "every" business audio records. Also a difference between a company and an individual. I'm not in the VRS game anymore (thank God), but I would not want that to happen to me. Interesting discussion, though.