Speechreading

Simultaneous interpretation in interpreter-mediated remote legal proceedings: some observations from a forum theatre study

“…Also, while they could see that the speaker was expressing an emotion, it was difficult to interpret what that emotion was when there were no aural cues from the speaker to assist them. It must also be borne in mind that when the interpreter utters 'no, it wasn't like that' without emotional context, the time delay and sentence-order differences between two languages may mean that the speaker's facial expression is not simultaneous with the interpreter's utterance, which again means that the emotion is difficult to read (Kaplan et al 1995).…”