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Cell Phones for the Deaf
nitzan writes "Quoting from the article: 'the software translates the voice on the other side of the line into a three dimensional animated face on the computer, whose lips move in real time synch with the voice allowing the receiver to lip read.' Unfortunately this only works with laptops, but a pda version is in the works." The company website has a demonstration.
Still no?
Ok, can you hear me now? Still no?
Ok....
...so now we'll all have to learn how to sign "Turn off your fucking phone, asshole!"
No downloadable ring-tones.
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
Being a severely hearing impaired person, I do find the virtual person's "O"'s to be highly disturbing if not graphic. Yikes.
My new Motorola phone I purchased this weekend mentions in it's menus Something about a TTY. I imagine I'd need data service from Verizon though.
Why aren't you encrypting your e-mail?
now deaf people can get brain cancer too...
look at a lip reader and say:
'I want a fig newton'
IMHO:
too many flaws, the investors will back out
pretzel_logic
This is clearly a solution for the large population of completely illiterate deaf people, for whom speech-to-text is not an option.
That's not a computer generated lip synch demo.
It merely an old millie vanillie video.
Better hope the RIAA doesn't find out.
I'm thinking about taking that new chick from Logistics. If things go right I might be showing her my O-face. You know: Oh! Oh!
At least I assumed that the folks speaking at 95 db into a highly compressed mic did so because they were deaf and unable to hear themselves.
There aint no pancake so thin it doesn't have two sides.
Reading this makes me realize that my Lightbulbs for the Blind scheme was not crazy! Bundles of cash, here I come!
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