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Video remote interpreting (VRI) is a fee-based service that delivers interpreting services, often on demand, through a web-based platform on a computer, laptop, tablet, or smartphone.

VRI can be used effectively to:

• fulfill last-minute, urgent requests for an interpreter;

• offer interpreting in the absence of in-person interpreters, especially in rural areas;

• provide interpreters with specific skill sets (e.g., deaf interpreters, trilingual interpreters); or

• meet a deaf person’s communication preferences.