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Telecommunications bridging between deaf and hearing users in South Africa
(2004)
This paper presents a description of telecommunications for Deaf people in South Africa by contrasting the situation in the developed world. We explain the main motivations for providing a locally appropriate solution. ...
SoftBridge in action: the first Deaf telephony pilot
(Telkom, 2003)
Following on several partial prototypes, we built an automated Deaf Telephony bridging application with the SoftBridge platform. The SoftBridge performs multi-modal bridging in real-time using Text-to-Speech (TTS) and ...
Preparation of Deaf end-users and the softbridge for semi-automated relay trials
(Telkom, 2004)
Following on the development of several prototypes, we have built a semi-automated Deaf Telephony prototype on the SoftBridge platform. This prototype relays text and speech between Deaf users on the Internet and hearing ...
Telgo323: an H.323 Bridge for deaf telephony
(Telkom, 2002)
We have developed a prototype bridge that relays text and speech between Teldem, a text telephone for the Deaf, and a standard telephone or H.323 endpoint. Telgo323 uses modified H.323 media gateways and open source Text ...
Web-based telephony bridges for the deaf
(Telkom, 2001)
A Teldem provides text-based telephony services to the deaf. Despite an array of text-based communications mechanisms on the web, the Teldem is the only means of synchronous telecommunication available to a deaf person. ...