Thanks to an Israeli invention by the SpeechView company, deaf and hard-of-hearing people will be able to use telephones that can ?show? them what the person on the other end of the line is saying.
In collaboration with Cellcom, SpeechView is marketing the technology as a new type of mobile phone that includes a color screen displaying an animated human face. The SpeechView technology converts basic sounds of human speech into facial gestures and visual signs that users can"lip-read" in real-time, thanks to 3D imaging. SpeechView reports that the technology is language independent, as it translates sounds into facial contortions, irrelevant of the meaning of those sounds.
SpeechView is based in Petah Tikva, Israel (www.speechview.com), and designs ?voice-based application such as: Mobile phones, Wireline phones, Television, Radio and much more, thus linking [deaf people] to the hearing world.?
In collaboration with Cellcom, SpeechView is marketing the technology as a new type of mobile phone that includes a color screen displaying an animated human face. The SpeechView technology converts basic sounds of human speech into facial gestures and visual signs that users can"lip-read" in real-time, thanks to 3D imaging. SpeechView reports that the technology is language independent, as it translates sounds into facial contortions, irrelevant of the meaning of those sounds.
SpeechView is based in Petah Tikva, Israel (www.speechview.com), and designs ?voice-based application such as: Mobile phones, Wireline phones, Television, Radio and much more, thus linking [deaf people] to the hearing world.?