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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by joncp on Friday October 30, 2020 @06:49PM (#24947592)
I work with a very international team and multiple people have accents too thick to understand. I've found that Teams and Google Meet understand them better than I do. The captioning is a godsend.
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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by treeman79 on Saturday October 31, 2020 @06:52AM (#24950398)
I Need to try this.

My treat is half Indian, I always feel bad but I flat out can’t follow them.

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Re:I’m deaf, and this is what happens when I get on a Zoom call by whatatita on Saturday October 31, 2020 @12:10PM (#24952596)
Don't feel bad! I have a thick accent when speaking English and have had colleagues ask me to try to annunciate better since they cannot understand me.

I know it's my job to communicate clearly so I make the effort to try to speak in a way that can be better understood by my team. I know my team are making an effort to understand me too.

I appreciate being told that I cannot be understood because it shows my team want to understand me and want me to be understood.

If your team can get past the sometimes awkward moment where you have to say "sorry; I didn't understand that", I'm sure they'll apreciate it too.

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