It’s been an amazing weekend so far, and it’s only Friday. Yesterday, I joined the CSDVRS team at our booth at the Association of Late-Deafened Adults Conference. I attended the first ALDA conference twenty years ago, just a few years after I became deaf, so it has been fun to reconnect with some of the faces that I saw long ago.
At the CSDVRS booth, we are showcasing the two new videophones: Z150 and Z340. Both of the videophones can be used with Voice Carry Over. This allows a person to use their own voice to talk to the person they are conversing with, and at the same time, have an interpreter on the videophone translating what is said. The user can choose between American Sign Language, English-based Sign Language, or lipreading.
There were several people who tried VCO on the CSDVRS videophones for the first time and were simply stunned at the ease of using the phone. There were others who called their friends directly and chatted face to face. That’s what I love about my work with videophones– just seeing a face light up when they connect with someone in a way that they’ve never done before–priceless.
Customer Julie Chavez makes a VCO call:
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Wow Karen! This is so cool to share in this with you! Thank you for making us all aware about access issues and sharing the joys that come with companies who are doing their part to deliver products that fulfill a need. This is so amazing!
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