Text to speech and speech to text app, powered by Whisper or the new tech, to allow deaf or mute to use the phone. Who's going to make it?
However, if you have never had a textual relay conversation, one of the conventions is that each party needs to say/type "go ahead/GA" when they are done. If you can break upon catching that phrase, that might be sufficient for whisper usage!
There are apps now that have the same service using AI transcription instead of a live interpreter, which is nice, but it’s not world-changing.
https://www.nad.org/resources/technology/telephone-and-relay...
I remember regularly taking text-to-speech calls from a non-speaking Mac customer when I worked on tech support at an ISP back in 1998. Must have reconfigured MacPPP a dozen times before we finally got him up and running. He had the patience of a saint…
In the UK Ofcom require telcos to provide such services to their customers. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/phones-telecoms-and-internet/advice...
This is absolutely the right solution to the problem, instead of insisting that every single organisation have such an in-house service.
because it can now talk and listen. with text to speech and speech to text.
to ensure equal access.
enjoy.
Perfect example from a link from yesterday: The removed a crosswalk because it was cheaper to be in compliance by removing it than fixing it [1]
Said another way, nobody…from the traffic engineer to the city counsel…cared enough about the people impacted, that they lobbied or changed the system in such a way that would help the impacted person. Their inputs were ignored or overruled.
[1] https://streets.mn/2023/07/19/if-we-want-a-shift-to-walking-...