The Israeli company SpeechView, together with the Cellcom communications company, launched a new milestone technology today that allows the deaf and hard-of-hearing to communicate normally by phone. The technology, invented by Dr. Nachshon Margaliot, translates basic sounds of human speech - in any language - into facial gestures and visual signs that can be "lip-read" from a color screen. SpeechView, a company dedicated to meeting the needs of the deaf and hard-of-hearing, claims that its real-time voice recognition engine is significantly faster than any current speech-to-text recognition engine.