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Enhance your Videophone Experience!
By Deaf411 | September 15, 2009
[DEAF411] If you are like me, we can’t live without the videophone – “deafinitely” a huge improvement over the TTY! Setting up a videophone device – or webcam – for videophone communication is relatively easier to do nowadays as more people become familiar with it. The installers or representatives from the VRS providers are also very helpful!
If you are set up to make videophone calls, you know what kind of challenges you have: how to get clear picture, adequate lighting, and what clothes to use. Are you doing everything possible to make yourself easy for the other person, or a Video Interpreter, to follow you during video conversations?
The second report from “Deaf Living Solution” series called “Make Videophone Calls like a Champ” is informative. Posted on the Deaf411Online website, this brief 5-minute video is chockfull of information. Deaf411 announcer Alexandria Wailes says four areas should be addressed for smooth videophone conversations: environment, clothing, body language and videophone culture.
Empowering Us to “Look Good” to other callers!
It is amazing how fast the “deaf videophone industry” has boomed in the past decade. We now have choice of videophones, or use webcams – the newer generation of laptops has built-in webcams – and can even choose from a long list of video relay services.
Using a videophone enables a much quicker communication than text relay. The video interpreter can pick up a lot more nuances because the interpreter can see your face, your facial expressions, and even inflect, in voice, your personality and signing style!
Because the conversations move at a faster speed, more information is covered during every conversation, and the length of each conversation gets shorter. The amazing videophone capabilities definitely elevates and presents you as intelligent deaf human beings… the hearing person begin to see you for who you are, and not as a “nuisance”!
The report goes over various scenarios and gives insights on aiming for smooth and effective video conversations. It is thought provoking and worth considering – would you have known that even how you dress, behave, and even how you sit, influences the video interpreter’s voice inflections?
“Make Videophone Calls like a Champ” is part of the “Deaf Living Solutions” series of internet video reports produced by Deaf411 and presented in sign language with open captions. This report was sponsored in a unique arrangement between Deaf411, a marketing and public relations company and LifeLinks, a video relay service provider based in New York City.
SIGNED & CAPTIONED VIDEO: www.deaf411online.com/deaflivingsolutions
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