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From: Tzipporah.Benavraham@hnews.fidonet.org (Tzipporah Benavraham)
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Subject: NEW DEAFNESS TECH
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Date: 17 Jun 91 15:40:02 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 1991 JUN 11 (NB) -- BellSouth has
modified Northern Telecom's Meridien Mail system to create a
"voice mail for the deaf" system at the Community College of
Philadelphia's Center on Disability.

Roseana Yoder, a systems designer for BellSouth Communication
Systems, modified the voice mail system so that
Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf, or TDDs, could interact
with it. Meridian Mail is part of a 1,400-line Northern Telecom
Meridian One telephone system installed at the college by
BellSouth.

Hearing impaired callers routinely access the Center during
normal working hours using a TDD device, by keying in their
message through the telephone line. The person at the other end
of the line -- using a similar device -- types back a response
which is readable on the one-line video display of the terminal.
During off-hours, the hearing impaired can interact, through
their TDDs, with a special message "written" in touch tone. About
12 students and 5 faculty members make regular use of the
service.

(Dana Blankenhorn/19910611/Press Contact: Jeff Nichols BellSouth
Communication Systems, 703-983-6071; Noel Weyrich, Community
College of Philadelphia, 215-751-8044)

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