is Sorenson lose business?

Well said!

VRS now is in national level, meaning that interpreter will face challenges with ASL "ACCENT" as we know ASL signs varies greatly across the America. THe VRS company have programmed their system to "transparent" the interpreter location, meaning that they have programmed to avoid the caller calls the center close to them, and choose center that we have no clue to who they are. This idea is to protect everybody's privacy! I really do not like the idea of call VRS interpreter and found out I know this interpreter, where the heck is my privacy? Very sticky!
Sometimes I ran into interpreter that do not know my local ASL accent, and I have to clarify them from time to time like sign name for my city, they do not know what that sign is, and that is expected so I had to spell out the name of city instead, and it does not mean that this interpreter is disqualified!

HoHGuyOhio said:
I know there are some interpreters who work in VRS (Sorenson, CSDVRS, HOVRS, etc) who probably aren't qualified to work there. But before you judge an interpreter, keep in mind a few things:

  • Interpreting certification is like a driver's license. It means an interpreter can handle most routine situations. It doesn't mean that s/he is ready for anything.

  • Before you criticize an interpreter's ability to understand you, make sure you have adequate lighting that does NOT come from the side or behind you, but coming from in FRONT of you. Your light should be near your VP, not to the side of you or behind you.

  • Make sure your connection speed is high.

  • Make sure your VP is focused correctly.

  • Make sure you that you are in the center of the screen with the top of your head near the top of the screen. When you are too far away or too close, we can't see you well enough to understand what you're saying.

  • ASL is a high-context language, which means that the meaning of the sign you use varies greatly depending on what signs come before and after it. So when you get an interpreter and call a hearing person and then you sign TIME with your eyebrows furrowed, I don't know whether to voice "What time is it?" or "What time are you coming over?" or "What time should I come over?" Give the interpreter a little context and they'll understand you better.

I've been certified for 11 years, and I still sometimes get a caller that I have a hard time understanding. There are no perfect interpreters.
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You can post complaints or questions to that and they will take hard look into.

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Those site is NOT affiliate with any VRS providers. Which is good for us and the questions/comments you made will be confidential!
 
ideafspy said:
You know that you just spoken like that? If we expect that you are expert with lip reading and interpreter whatever it is say. If you don't understand and should I said, kekeke, you FIRED!

When you see a prefect interpreter, name one. please.
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well.... nobody have fired. lol
nothing really happy but, during my experience that there are great interpreter wouldn't understand me anyway. :)
 
well im not surprised that sorsen is going bai bai
its a rumor? yes but nevertheless i m not surprised due to the fact its getting more and more inconvient well to me anyway hehe
anyhoo..... i m pretty much hating the sorsen router right now its so limited so standarded what happened to speed booster? ther are routers that can go like 20 times faster than sorsen standard router that vp just simply refuse to accept for some reason oh well the point is to me vp100 is more inconvent than helpful in my opinion ofc
 
darkflare83 said:
well im not surprised that sorsen is going bai bai
its a rumor? yes but nevertheless i m not surprised due to the fact its getting more and more inconvient well to me anyway hehe
anyhoo.....
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it isnt going bye bye!! ya read wrong!! it was rumor.. some had to cut off due to the budget. Some hire more. Some set up a new Sorenson center.
 
darkflare83 said:
well im not surprised that sorsen is going bai bai
its a rumor? yes but nevertheless i m not surprised due to the fact its getting more and more inconvient well to me anyway hehe
anyhoo..... i m pretty much hating the sorsen router right now its so limited so standarded what happened to speed booster? ther are routers that can go like 20 times faster than sorsen standard router that vp just simply refuse to accept for some reason oh well the point is to me vp100 is more inconvent than helpful in my opinion ofc
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Most home ISPs deliver broadband that is from the low end 56k (dial up) to as high as 15 Mbps (fiber optics). Sorenson routers give a rate of 100 Mbps, which is 6x faster than fiber optics. On a more realistic note, the average home gets between 1.5 mbps to 6 mbps (DSL or Cable broadband) and it's still 16x to 66x faster than you need. Speedboost? Just a marketing hype! :blah:
 
Yes, but that is half of the story. Most ISP do not advertise the truth about the internet speed! Nor even truth of how their system runs. Most of the time, they advertised that their service is blazing fast, yea right!! only for download part. But they left out the truth about upload speed. Generally their upload is around the minimum requirement for the VP for its optimal operation! Sometimes their system aren't up to date and do not meet the videostream, The videostream started just few years ago, and the older system only supports data and it does not notice much when using just data, computer is data based, while VP is videostream based. They aren't designed to handle very high demand for videostream. They don't want to spend $$$ to upgrade.

RickL66 said:
Most home ISPs deliver broadband that is from the low end 56k (dial up) to as high as 15 Mbps (fiber optics). Sorenson routers give a rate of 100 Mbps, which is 6x faster than fiber optics. On a more realistic note, the average home gets between 1.5 mbps to 6 mbps (DSL or Cable broadband) and it's still 16x to 66x faster than you need. Speedboost? Just a marketing hype! :blah:
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And today I learned the VP-200 has a very strong challenger coming up soon. And in the interest of the healthy concept of competition, my further silence on this is good as gold.

Richard
 
Nesmuth said:
And today I learned the VP-200 has a very strong challenger coming up soon. And in the interest of the healthy concept of competition, my further silence on this is good as gold.

Richard
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Interesting. Will all of the other VRS services be using this new device?
 
That's a lie.

Sorenson Video Relay has over 2200 interpreters. And they're getting paid $30 minimum an hour.


Just so you know.
 
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