Second problem is that sign language is heavily influenced with corresponding facial expressions, body language, the motion of the hands, even how emphatic the motions are. Trying to approximate what is effectively a SPATIAL language into written glyphs feels like a complete waste of time.
If your native language is French, why might you prefer things to be written in French rather than, say, Swahili?
subtitles can work but it's basically a second language. perhaps comparable to many countries where people speak a dialect that's very different from the "standard" written language.
this is why you sometimes have sign language interpreters at events, rather than just captions.
there's not really a widely accepted written form of sign language.
That argument applies just as equally to sign language - most countries have their own idiosyncratic sign language. (ASL, LSE, etc.). Any televised event that has interpreters will be using the national language version.
The closest thing you're thinking of is IS - International Sign but its much more limited in terms of expression and not every deaf person knows it.
> there's not really a widely accepted written form of sign language.
Because it makes no sense to have it unless there was a regional deaf community that was fluent in sign language and also simultaneously illiterate.
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No, the reason is because a) it's in real time, and b) there's no screen to put the subtitles on. If it was possible to simply display subtitles on people's vision, that would be much more preferable, because writing is a form of communication more people are familiar with than sign language. For example, someone might not be deaf, but might still not be able to hear the audio, so a sign language interpreter would not help them at all, while closed captions would.
(Your comment would be just fine without the last sentence)
If you're going to convert audio to a digital form in realtime anyway we have this new amazing invention called the WRITTEN LANGUAGE.
