Browsing Faculty of Natural Sciences by Author "Lewis, John"
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SoftBridge in action: the first Deaf telephony pilot
Tucker, William David; Glaser, Meryl; Lewis, John (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 ... -
SoftBridge: a multimodal instant messaging bridging system
Lewis, John; Tucker, William David; Blake, Edwin H. (Telkom, 2003)Instant Messaging is traditionally a text only a air. However, there are instances when it would be useful to bridge to other types of media, like speech. The SoftBridge is an application framework that enables this kind ... -
SoftBridge: an architecture for building IP-based bridges over the digital divide
Lewis, John; Tucker, William David; Blake, Edwin H. (Telkom, 2002)Users and computing equipment have varying capabilities that include the abilities to exchange text and audio, engage in high bandwidth communication, etc. As the technological options increase, e ective communication ...