MULTIMODAL HUMAN INTERACTION IN VIDEOCONFERENCE INTERPRETING

Abstract

The evolution of communication technologies such as video conferencing and remote meeting has created ample opportunities for distance communication in real time and has led to alternative ways for delivering interpreting services. Videoconference interpreting, either spoken-language or sign-language interpreting, is best described as a ‘multimodal’ way to deliver interpreting remotely which has been used for simultaneous, consecutive and dialogue interpreting. This paper focuses on the technical issues of integrating multimodal information of videoconference into interpreting and multimodal human interaction in videoconference interpreting. A prototype computer-aided videoconference interpreting system, CACIS, is introduced as well. Keywords: Videoconference interpreting (VCI), multimodal human interaction, meeting content analysis, computer-aided interpreting