Device independent text captioned telephone service
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1. A method of providing captions to telephone callers using a combination of a telephone terminal and an Internet appliance comprising the steps of:
- (a) communicating, over a telephone network, a voice portion of a telephone call between a first caller and a second caller operating telephone terminals communicating with the telephone network;
(b) routing the voice portion to voice recognition engine at a relay, the voice recongition engine transcribing the voice portion to corresponding text;
(c) communicating the text over the Internet; and
(d) displaying the text on the Internet appliance to at least one of the first and second callers.
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Abstract
Text captioned telephony, in which a telephone conversation is accompanied by text captions to aid in hard-of-hearing users, is implemented without the use of specialized text captioned telephone terminals by using a combination of an Internet appliance such as a computer and a telephone or by generalized voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) telephones.
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1. A method of providing captions to telephone callers using a combination of a telephone terminal and an Internet appliance comprising the steps of:
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(a) communicating, over a telephone network, a voice portion of a telephone call between a first caller and a second caller operating telephone terminals communicating with the telephone network;
(b) routing the voice portion to voice recognition engine at a relay, the voice recongition engine transcribing the voice portion to corresponding text;
(c) communicating the text over the Internet; and
(d) displaying the text on the Internet appliance to at least one of the first and second callers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A telephone call captioning system comprising:
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a first and second telephone terminal communicating over a telephone network to convey a voice portion of a telephone call between a first caller and a second caller operating the telephone terminals;
a relay recieving the voice portion and providing a computer executed speech recognition engine transcribing the voice portion to corresponding text; and
an Internet appliance communicating over the Internet to display the text to at least one of the first and second callers. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. A relay for telephone call captioning comprising:
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a first connection for receiving at least a voice portion telephone call between a first caller and a second caller operating telephone terminals communicating with a telephone network;
a computer executed speech recognition engine operating to transcribe at least a portion of the telephone call to text; and
a second connection conveying the text over the Internet to an Internet appliance viewable by one of the first and second callers. - View Dependent Claims (22)
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23. A captioning method providing captions to callers communicating over the Internet comprising the steps of:
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communicating a voice portion of a telephone call between a first caller and a second caller, at least the first caller operating an Internet telephone using a voice over Internet protocol; and
communicating a text captioning of the telephone call between the first caller and the second caller to at least one of the Internet telephones communicating over the Internet with a relay, the relay providing a speech recognition engine transcribing the voice portion to text captioning. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. A captioning system providing captions to callers communicating over the Internet comprising:
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at least one Internet telephone communicating a voice portion of a telephone call between a first caller and a second caller using a voice over Internet protocol;
a relay providing a speech recogition engine and operating to communicate a text captioning of the telephone call to at least one of the Internet telephone communicating over the Internet with a relay. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42)
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