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human
ELI5 why do events and broadcasts incorporate a sign language interpreter instead of quality text captioning, which seems like it would be just as useful or more (many people have a range of hearing issues who do not know ASL)?
gpt
The people in the audience would not be able to clearly see closed captioning and it's a lot more personal when you've got a live person interpreting for you rather than just words popping up on the screen. It's also really difficult to synchronize text with live speech - even if you have the script ahead of time, a person's going to naturally do unscripted pauses (coughing to clear throats, pausing for effect or to gather thoughts, taking a sip of water, etc.) that would throw the text off sync.