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Video Phone for Deaf and Hard-Hearing Community

Video Phone for Deaf and Hard-Hearing Community. By Hudson Asiema. Background. Before the videophone for the deaf community is recently introduced and developed: TTD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) Pager SMS and EMAIL. Introduction of the Videophone to deaf and hard-hearing people.

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Video Phone for Deaf and Hard-Hearing Community

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  1. Video Phone for Deaf and Hard-Hearing Community By Hudson Asiema

  2. Background • Before the videophone for the deaf community is recently introduced and developed: • TTD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf) • Pager • SMS and EMAIL

  3. Introduction of the Videophone to deaf and hard-hearing people • Videophone enables deaf people to communicate in sign languages. • It enables deaf people to call hearing people’s cell phone via an ASL interpreter.

  4. Make a call to hearing people from deaf user who have the videophone

  5. Video Relay Service (VRS) • VRS “enables [deaf and hard-hearing person] who use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate with voice telephone users through video equipment, rather than through typed text.”

  6. Benefits to Deaf and hard-hearing Community • Save time • Videophone saves deaf people’s time over TTD, pagers, email. • Face-to-face communication • Facial and emotional expression. • Free service • NO charge. • Availability of videophone Booth – free to use.

  7. Disadvantages • Calling 911 • Some businesses hang up on videophone users • Sometimes, any bank CAN’T accept a call if it is a third party • Sorenson VRS is not portable and wireless. • Limitation of videophone booth for the public such as school, company, hospital, library.

  8. Future • “MobileASL is a video compression project at the University of Washington with the goal of making wireless cell phone communication through sign language a reality in the U.S.”

  9. References • MobileASL.http://mobileasl.cs.washington.edu/ • Sorenson Communications.http://www.sorenson.com/press/reviews.php • “Video Relay Services.” Federal Communications Commission. http://www.fcc.gov/cgb/consumerfacts/videorelay.html

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