#Zoom account

[mtariqniaz]

How to Offer Tech Support to Your Older Relatives

We’ve all been there. The phone rings, you answer it, and the next 45 minutes of your life is spent trying to talk your grandparents through how to set up a Zoom account on their PC or install WhatsApp on their mobile device. By the time you’re done with the experience, you either failed to resolve the issue, or you successfully fixed the problem and now your elderly relatives see you as a CIA…

[metausa23]

In our increasingly globalized world, effective communication is vital for businesses, organizations, and individuals. Zoom Interpretation, offered by Metaphrasis, is a powerful tool that enables seamless multilingual communication during virtual meetings, webinars, and conferences. This step-by-step guide will walk you through the process of setting up and utilizing Zoom Interpretation to ensure clear and effective communication with participants who speak different languages.

What is Zoom Interpretation?

Zoom Interpretation is a feature that allows meeting hosts to provide real-time interpretation services in multiple languages. It ensures that participants who speak different languages can engage in discussions, presentations, and collaborations without language barriers.

Why is it essential in today's globalized world?

As businesses expand globally and international collaborations become the norm, overcoming language barriers is crucial. Zoom Interpretation fosters inclusivity, facilitates international communication, and ultimately leads to better outcomes in various sectors.

Getting Started with Zoom Interpretation

Before you can harness the power of Zoom Interpretation, you need to set up your account and activate this feature.

Sign up for a Zoom account

If you don't already have a Zoom account, sign up on the Zoom website. It's free to create an account, and you can choose from various subscription plans depending on your needs.

Activate the Zoom Interpretation feature

To use Zoom Interpretation, log in to your Zoom account and navigate to the settings. Ensure that the "Interpretation" feature is enabled. This step is essential for conducting multilingual meetings.

Setting Up Your Meeting

Now that your Zoom account is ready, it's time to schedule your multilingual meeting and enable interpretation.

Schedule a meeting

In your Zoom account, schedule a new meeting as you normally would. Set the date, time, and other meeting details.

Enable interpretation

While setting up the meeting, you'll find the "Interpretation" option. Enable it to access interpretation settings for this specific meeting.

Select interpreters

You'll need to have interpreters for each language you want to support. Select the interpreters for your meeting and assign them specific languages to interpret.

Preparing Your Interpreters

Once Professional interpreters are selected, it's crucial to prepare them adequately for the meeting.

Provide materials and context

Share any relevant meeting materials, agendas, or presentations with your interpreters in advance. Providing context helps them prepare and deliver accurate interpretations.

Test interpreter audio and connection

Ensure that your interpreters have the necessary equipment and a stable internet connection. Conduct audio tests to verify sound quality and minimize technical glitches during the meeting.

Joining the Meeting as an Interpreter

On the day of the meeting, interpreters need to join the session correctly.

Using the Zoom desktop app

Interpreters can join the meeting through the Zoom desktop app. They should select the language they'll interpret and connect to the meeting.

Connecting via web browser

Alternatively, interpreters can join through a web browser by clicking on the provided link and following the instructions. This option is convenient if they don't have the Zoom app installed.

Interpreting During the Meeting

Once the meeting starts, interpreters play a crucial role in facilitating communication between participants.

Switching between languages

Interpreters can switch between languages seamlessly during the meeting, ensuring that all participants understand and engage in the discussion.

Muting original audio

To avoid confusion, interpreters can mute the original audio when they are actively interpreting. This helps participants focus on the interpretation.

Participant Experience

Participants also have a role in making Zoom Interpretation work effectively.

How participants select their language

Participants can choose their preferred language for interpretation in the Zoom settings. This ensures that they hear the meeting in a language they understand.

Hearing the interpretation

Participants will hear the interpretation in real-time, making it easier for them to engage in discussions and follow presentations.

Best Practices for Effective Interpretation

To ensure the success of your multilingual meeting, follow these best practices.

Speak clearly and at a moderate pace

Interpreters should speak clearly and at a pace that allows participants to follow along comfortably. Avoid speaking too fast or too slowly.

Manage interruptions and feedback

Encourage participants to avoid interrupting the interpreter and provide feedback on interpretation quality after the meeting.

Troubleshooting and Tips

Despite careful planning, technical issues may arise during your multilingual meeting.

Dealing with technical issues

Have a plan in place to address technical problems quickly, such as interpreter disconnects or audio issues.

Enhancing interpreter performance

Continuously provide feedback to interpreters to help them improve their skills and deliver high-quality interpretations.

Security and Privacy

Protecting your data and ensuring privacy is paramount when using Zoom Interpretation.

Ensuring data protection

Understand Zoom's data security policies and inform participants about data handling during meetings.

Controlling access

Manage participant access to the meeting and interpretation features to prevent unauthorized use.

Feedback and Evaluation

Gather feedback from participants and interpreters to assess the effectiveness of Zoom Interpretation.

Collecting feedback from participants

Use surveys or post-meeting discussions to gather feedback on the interpretation quality and overall meeting experience.

Continuous improvement

Use feedback to make improvements and ensure that future meetings are even more effective and inclusive.

Cost and Subscription Plans

Zoom Interpretation offers both free and paid options.

Free and paid options

Review Zoom's subscription plans to choose the one that best suits your organization's needs and budget.

Choosing the right plan for your needs

Consider factors such as the number of participants, meeting frequency, and required features when selecting a plan.

Real-life Success Stories

Learn from organizations that have successfully implemented Zoom Interpretation to enhance their global communication.

Future Developments

Stay informed about upcoming features and enhancements to make the most of Zoom Interpretation.

Conclusion

Zoom Interpretation, powered by Metaphrasis, is a game-changer in breaking down language barriers during virtual meetings. By following this step-by-step guide, you can confidently set up and utilize Zoom Interpretation to ensure effective multilingual communication in any setting.

[gloomy-prince]

one regret about my art style is that this is the biggest I can make Eddie’s eyes before he starts looking like a cat with dilated pupils

[fluentisonus]

also really bad photos but check out my hair

[smile-files]

nickel and balloon stuff from spring on the breakfast!!! i'm keeping in mind that in the previous episode, both of them were under the impression that their friendship wasn't real...

in a way, ii3 balloon is a lot like late ii3 cabby. of course, balloon did something indisputably immoral (manipulate and exploit others), and cabby only did something thought to be immoral (keep and use files about her fellow contestants) -- but both did something wrong and had to subsequently undergo a disproportionate amount of abuse and malignment for it, ending up with them being apologetic and submissive to avoid any chance of being framed as bad again. the biggest difference is that cabby has internalized the guilt others have attributed to her, while balloon largely hasn't -- he understands the concept of rolling with the punches for the sake of keeping good connections, but he doesn't believe he deserves it.

nickel brushes off ii2 a LOT this episode. to rid himself of his guilt regarding that time, he necessarily has to delegitimize the hatred he felt towards balloon then, thus also ridding balloon of his guilt. he expresses this all vaguely, choosing to remember ii2 fondly and saying off-hand that its baggage should be laughed off -- implying that balloon has been forgiven. reasonably, balloon is happy that nickel seems to actually believe he's changed for the better, so initially this makes him happy.

of course, though, it becomes clear that nickel just wants to shove his own actions under the rug, and balloon reasonably gets pissed off. nickel treated balloon and suitcase like complete garbage in ii2, and balloon clearly hasn't forgotten that.

"it keeps things easy." it keeps things easy to roll with the punches, to endure nickel's abuse and accept his sudden friendship. note, also, that nickel is still placing the blame on balloon: he's saying that balloon didn't want to "make things better", as if nickel and balloon ever having a rift was entirely balloon's fault, and his problem to fix.

and as we can see, nickel still hasn't fully forgiven balloon for ii1. as i've discussed before, nickel seems to secretly feel incredible guilt about how he treated balloon in ii2 (which is why he goes to such lengths to repress the whole memory of it) -- but that guilt is about the way in which he expressed his disdain and distrust of balloon, not those opinions themselves, nor the motivations for them. this is all very interesting, then -- if he still believes balloon can't change from his old, bad self, why did nickel start being friends with him at all?

i think a large part of it is his projection onto balloon. nickel sees himself in balloon: someone who screwed up big-time and isn't able to become a better person after that (according to nickel). we tend to gravitate to people similar to us, after all. i wouldn't be surprised if nickel was also trying to overcompensate for his hostility towards balloon in ii2 by being very friendly with him in ii3, thereby helping him forget that he was ever hostile to him at all.

the most fascinating thing to me about balloon and nickel's relationship is how impersonal it is for balloon. he seems to value what nickel's affection represents rather than nickel himself -- and it represents that he's been forgiven. anyone who saw balloon and nickel's conflict in ii2, which was a product of balloon's nastiness in ii1 and nickel's subsequent inability to forgive that nastiness, would likely come to accept balloon and forgive him themselves if they then saw nickel being friendly with him -- because nickel is the epitome of the ii contestants' anger at him, and nickel of all people (seemingly) forgiving him would imply that he's really changed. the relationship is almost entirely a symbol in that regard. i don't think balloon has much residual guilt about is actions in ii1 -- he feels like he's adequately addressed them and changed -- but nickel having a positive relationship would be helpful in affirming that stance and proving to himself that he really has changed.

i wouldn't say it's cruel of balloon to keep this relationship going on under that pretense, but it is backhanded, and it helps explain why he was ever willing to accept nickel's friendliness unchallenged. he wanted his crimes to finally be laid to rest once and for all, and keeping nickel on good terms with him would let that happen. people would finally shut up about it. up until now, nickel wasn't explicitly denying his past cruelty towards balloon anyway, so balloon would be able to ignore that he neglected to ever bring it up; now, though, nickel is denying not only what he did to balloon but also to suitcase, which balloon is not able to tolerate. now that he's confronted nickel about that though, nickel snaps back with his condemnation of what balloon did in ii1, thereby uprooting the social stasis balloon had been able to maintain precisely because nickel refused to bring anything up before. in a way, then, balloon is purposefully shoving the past under the rug, just like nickel is.

we can't forget, though, that nickel has his own complex about fearing that he's incapable of change and incapable of forming positive, genuine relationships with people. balloon is essentially revealing that, in a way, he wasn't really friends with nickel -- at least not in the way nickel wished and fooled himself into thinking they were. if balloon truly were friends with nickel like that, then that would mean that balloon had forgiven him for his cruelty in ii2, and perhaps that he really has changed... but no. balloon hasn't forgiven him. why should he? nickel never apologized -- and given how he never apologized, it's impossible that he could've changed anyway: nickel doesn't want to apologize because that means addressing his guilt and allowing himself to feel it. he wants the forgiveness to be handed to him on a silver platter, without him having to do all of the painful work, and he's incredibly upset when it isn't. he wants to not be a bad person, but in order to do that, he has to feel like one, and he really doesn't want to. he hates who he was and doesn't want to associate with it at all.

(note how it's the suitcase robot who says "you can say sorry" when nickel says that nothing can be done about making things better...)

there's clearly an immeasurable amount of resentment these two have been harboring for each other throughout this season, which they'd only been hiding for the sake of fooling themselves into thinking they've changed (nickel) or thinking that others think they've changed (balloon). and now that they've let themselves explode with anger, partly related to the lies they'd been telling themselves falling apart, they yell at each other and balloon drops nickel down a hole!

ah, balloon and nickel's relationship... it's bizarre, it's toxic, it's convoluted, it's shady, and it's incredibly sad. i'm glad i'm revisiting ii3, especially this episode -- i used to be utterly baffled by nickel's writing, particularly in spring on the breakfast, but now it makes complete sense to me. also, i used to think balloon was entirely the victim in this relationship, while now i know that he has his own faults and own baggage in that regard. it's weird -- they hate each other, but at the same time they're dying to be liked by one another. god i love these freaks...

[queermania]

it's still so interesting to me that there's this lasting perception in fandom that dean is the one who doesn't want sam to have any relationships outside of the two of them and not the other way around when all evidence points to the contrary. dean regularly pushes sam to make connections with people but because he *checks notes* showed up at sam's apartment when he was scared about their missing father and got mad at sam for ignoring the outside world in order to play house while dean was fighting for his life and kevin needed him, that must mean dean wants sam all to himself i guess? apparently taking sam back to his apartment and telling him to go to amelia and offering to take him to visit sarah blake and encouraging him to go after eileen and and and just doesn't stack up against that one time he was traumatized and angry.

[garfield-milk]

the official atla Instagram is... something

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Call with a rabbi part two, electric boogaloo commences in twenty hours

[ikram1909]

"Gavi has to be the barça of the future"

[cripplepunkbarbarian]

Collection of Brennan "ah, shit" reactions to character moments from the main campaigns:

Fabian eye patch immunity to fear versus Daybreak in hell

Liam Detect Poison And Disease on Amethar

Theo Knock + Swirlwarden out of the ocean

Saccharina saving Jawbreaker first turn insanity

Pete Null banishment nat20 + subtle spell & psychic link nullifying Tony's throat chop

Sydney shatter bomb on the Plinth

Margaret falling out of the crows nest and Call To The Guards-ing

Gorgug rage nullifying charm & fear effects

there are definitely more that i can't remember atm. but im rewatching TUC2 and just got to the subtle spell thing which has gone unappreciated for too long. iconic.

[nezierf]

kurwomi - a kuromi after a year in poland

[myuntoldstory]

“Lily…”

He searches her eyes intensely, looking past the declarations, the humour, trying to see the root. Lily keeps her gaze steady, not looking away, leaving herself open and trusting him to see. And he does. Of course. Recognition lights up his face, followed by a myriad of other things: shock, confusion, anger…

He opens his mouth. And her gaze turns pleading, determined. He hesitates, leaning back slightly, disagreement still clear in his face. But eventually it crumbles to resignation, to acceptance. His face falls altogether and a shine takes on his eyes, and she sees a slight tremble on his bottom lip. She grips his hand. He grips back. He musters a smile.

“After.” He promises.

She beams, corners of her eyes wet. “Yeah, after.”

“I’ll propose the shit out of you.”

She laughs, sniffling. “What does that even mean?”

His smile becomes more natural, more himself. “Just prepare yourself.”

“I look forward to it.”

— “coffee makes and shower meets”

[jayswing101]

*sobs in why did i decide to make the mountains look realistic*

In an attempt to finally finish this, I am posting the wip here (it's been over a year pls let me finish this pls). Maybe if more than just like two people know of its existence, I'll finally finish this and fill the "backstory" square on my guardian bingo card haha ;-;

[dmmdconfessions]

[Image text: I had my grandma buy me DMMd on Steam because I didn't have enough money on my card... I'm so sorry, grandma.]

[in-death-we-fall]

Chubby messed up eyeliner Weds upon ye!

[stars-inthe-sky]

So, hey. How did you and your family celebrate Passover when you were a kid? How about now?

My Rhode Island aunt and uncle almost always hosted a big family Seder, and it was the absolute best. A good Seder is educational, food-filled, and legit fun—it's a ritual meal that includes storytelling, singing, prayers, and a general focus on including and teaching everyone involved, regardless of age or even whether attendees are Jewish. (If ever you're invited to a friend's Seder, go! Do not bring a challah, which my actually-bar-mitzvahed brother-in-law did once as an attempt at a thoughtful host gift. We still make fun of him.)

And my uncle (the same one who officiated at my wedding, and the wedding of my other sister) may well be the greatest host/leader there is; over the years he compiled from a medley of sources what added up to his own Haggadah (basically the guidebook to the Seder—there are a million published and informal versions working off the same template, with readings and activities and interpretations that can go kid-centric or feminist or traditional or whatever). It was always just insanely fun, and warm, and joyous, with incredible food and an increasing array of baked-in, just-us traditions.

Since I went to college basically down the street from their house, and then lived just an hour away in Boston for so long, that was pretty much the heart of my and my family's celebration most years—right up until Passover 2020, at which point the pandemic negated what had been plans to travel from our new home in Illinois for it, and they also downsized and had their own kids scatter geographically and gain very little ones, so that particular tradition is at best on hiatus now.

But there are fun Seders everywhere—well, the Zoom ones of the pandemic years were a mixed bag, but we've found friends who've make a good go of it, over the years, too, if not quite as an elaborately planned out hourslong celebration as my uncle would do. When I studied abroad in Denmark, Boyfriend and I went to an Orthodox Seder that was in a mix of Danish and Hebrew, for instance—that was novel, and so much of the procedure and the Hebrew was familiar enough to follow along.

Still working on exactly where we'll be for those two nights this year (we haven't really met any Jewish families in Pittsburgh yet to garner an invite, and none of the Reform or Conservative synagogues seem to have community events, which is surprising? And I don't really want to go to Chabad?) but we'll figure something out.

That said, as fun as the Seders can and should be, the rest of Passover is a slog of not eating bread or adjacent products, and experiencing whatever it is matzah does to one's digestive system over the course of a week. It's a meaningful observance, and the fact that the relevant rabbinical boards have stopped including rice and legumes in the "no" column in recent years has been great, but...it's ultimately a holiday recalling the story of the Exodus, and how we were slaves once, so, like, there are some less-fun elements. But the freedom celebration parts usually outweigh that!