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Technology Versus Interpreter - Support or Replacement?: Conference Proceedings 2013 Efsli 1. izdevums

We live in a time of modern technology, which is rapidly developing in leaps and bounds. It allows us to progress and brings us new possibilities to improve our daily lives with quicker and easier communication. Information is accessible on all sides, wherever and whenever we need it. Modern technology provides us a great deal of convenience. But does technology provide the support that it appears to, for sign language interpreters and for users of interpreting services? Do sign language interpreters feel they cannot improve, that they have reached their limits or that they are obsolete like out of date software? Or do interpreters think in terms of daily updates and developing new versions with greater utility and capacity? Perhaps from technology comes the support that interpreters need and there is not any need to fear it as replacing humans. If that is the present day, what can we expect from the future?