SYNFACE

The main purpose of the SYNFACE project is to increase the possibilities for hard of hearing people to communicate by telephone. Many people use lip-reading during conversations, and this is especially important for hard of hearing people. However, this clearly doesn't work over the telephone!. This project aims to develop a talking face controlled by the incoming telephone speech signal. The talking face will facilitate speech understanding by providing lip-reading support. This method works with any telephone and is cost-effective compared to video telephony and text telephony that need compatible equipment at both ends.

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News & Politics

Tags:

• phonetics
• synface
• deaf

[veerleke]

is this still necessary with skype and the likes around where everyone can videochat for free around the world??

[EriqueSherman]

Read about this in Pc för Alla! No doubt an interesting piece of technology.