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From: Fran.O'gorman@f94.n272.z1.fidonet.org (Fran O'gorman)
Newsgroups: misc.handicap
Subject: Re: Sign Language Program
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Date: 3 May 91 04:04:36 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 FO>> Hmmm, have to look at my Telix program...would it be like
 FO>> being in chat with someone like on a BBS?

 JO> Yep, just like chat.  My Boyan comm program galls it "gossip" mode
 JO> and gives a split screen with each half of the conversation
 JO> scrolling in half the screen.  Unfortunately, most TDDs are still
 JO> BAUDOT. ASCII is usually optional at extra cost, and the high-end
 JO> TDDs are converging cost-wise on the low end TDDs.

Well it will be really neat when it becomes more commonplace.
This way the liklihood for a hearing person to be able to call a
deaf person easily enough, would be so much better.  In another
words if I called you that way it'd be like you were a sysop with
a BBS...?  That is, if you have a TDD that uses ASCII...I think I
get the picture now... well hopefully the technology will become
less expensive and more commonplace.

 JO> The relay systems are the best answer, at least for now.  Someday
 JO> we'll have a realtime habitable speech-to-text system that will
 JO> process continuous speech as fast as you can read it.  But the
 JO> relays will have to do for the time being.  Too bad they won't
 JO> allow out of state calls.  (about 10 states allow them now, with
 JO> some restrictions.)

Boy, with the technology offering such possibilities for the
future it's hard to believe the present is so limited.  I guess
with the addition of the various services (AT&T, MCI, Sprint) it
even gets more complicated too.

--Fran

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