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Originally Posted by EnglishJW
What are the "interpreting services" that are the most useful? Are you generally talking about sign language? Would it be possible to have someone type - maybe with a large screen or monitor - what is being said? If this could work there would be a simple technology required and, I assume, a number of people who possess the requisite skills to translate in this manner.
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English, this is actually being done. The people who do this are highly skilled and type by phonetics rather than alphabet. It's an arduous process to be certified as a court recorder, and many of these people move on to "real-time" captioning, such as is seen on television news and other live broadcasts, because they can work from home via satellite feed. An accuracy rate of 85% was considered good in the midwest. The company I worked for provided this service for many of the colleges in Michigan, but of course not from home.