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The telephone is the most important piece of personal communication technology in the home. It is a technology that is accessible to nearly all people – except those with hearing impairments. Speech recognition and synthesis technology might be used to make telephone communication between a deaf and a hearing person possible. The necessary speaker-independent speech recognition technology is not currently available, but this paper reports a study in which such technology was simulated in order to test the feasibility of such communication. The results demonstrate that such a system would be highly desirable, but it will not be feasible until speech recognition rates are greatly improved.
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- Accessibility
- deafness
- telephone use
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Edwards, A.D.N. (2005). TELEPHONE ACCESS FOR DEAF PEOPLE. In: Sloane, A. (eds) Home-Oriented Informatics and Telematics. HOIT 2005. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, vol 178. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/11402985_17
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