retune some receiver or other and pick it up properly. Alloran would help but he does not know jack about thought-speak receivers. (ngl that was always part of the draw of playing alloran over ax, ax knows something about every mysterious science thing, alloran knows... some things, but also, Science And Computers Are Girl Things, pssshh what's this men in stem nonsense)

I got a reply! If KO knows how to read some version of sign language then he can read ASL, but only if. Still, they could work out a little bit that way, plus all the other options.

also I've been wondering. do... do transformers have dna