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This section describes the poster submitted to and presented at the ICCHP '98. The poster was mounted and explained to interested persons within the exhibition area of the ICCHP conference. In the following you can find the submission to ICCHP:

 

EU-Telematics-TIDE-Project DE4104

K. Miesenberger, G. Wagner

Modellversuch "Informatik für Blinde", University of Linz

Altenbergerstraße 69, A - 4040 Linz, Austria

email: voice@mvblind.uni-linz.ac.at

Tel.: +43 732 2468 9232, Fax - 9322

Keywords

deaf, voice to text recognition, promotion of technologies, subtitling

Background:

Deaf and hard of hearing people suffer from the lack of access to verbal communication. Help in reducing the gap between the deaf and the hearing world should be enforced. Automatic recognition of speech has to be considered as a powerful tool for closing this gap. Although voice to text recognition packages are already available and used for different purposes the community of the deaf and hard of hearing hesitates to use this new technology. This situation derives more or less from the lack of

• information about this technology
• knowledge about users needs
• studies of how and where to apply (feasibility studies)

Targets:

The VOICE Project intends to

• promote new technologies in the field of voice to text recognition (workshops, meetings, demonstration in practice)
• develop a demonstrator prototype
• set up test-applications (conversation, telephone, conferences, schools, TV)
• stimulate and increase the dissemination of information on the Internet
• act as an intermediary between the highly fragmented framework of associations, companies, universities, schools, public administration, ....
• specify and translate the users needs into technical specifications

PARTNERS:

Consortium:

• JRC - ISIS - TP361, Ispra, Italy (main contractor)
• Software Solutions, Milano, Italy
• Associazione Lombarda Famiglie Audiolesi, Milano, Italy
• Centro Comunicare è Vivere, Milano, Italy
• Institut für Hör- und Sehbildung, Linz, Austria
• Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria

Co-operations in Austria:

• ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Company), Vienna, Austria
• OCG (Austrian Computer Society), Vienna, Austria

Contact:

Modellversuch "Informatik für Blinde", University of Linz, Altenbergerstrasse 69, A-4040 Linz, Austria; Tel.: +43 732 2468 9232, Fax - 9322; E-mail: info@mvblind.uni-linz.ac.at

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