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Telecommunications relay service method and apparatus

  • US 5,289,523 A
  • Filed: 07/31/1992
  • Issued: 02/22/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/31/1992
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A method for use in a system for processing communication sessions over a telephone network between sound impaired and unimpaired persons, during which at least one live attendant transcribes and transmits to the sound impaired person that which is spoken by the unimpaired person and an automated text-to-speech system converts into speech to be heard by the unimpaired person that which is input by the sound impaired person, said at least one live attendant being free to perform other tasks during said text-to-speech conversion, said method characterized by buffering that which is spoken by the unimpaired person from at least the time of completion of a text-to-speech conversion by said text-to-speech system until an assignment, at some time thereafter, of said at least one live attendant for transcribing and transmitting to said sound impaired person that which is spoken by said unimpaired person.

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