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OwnerRobert Engelke, Kevin Colwell +5inventors
InventorsRobert Engelke, Kevin Colwell, Troy Vitek, Jeffrey Havens, Kurt Grittner, Dean Hofstetter, Mathew McCulley
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A communication system and format is described for use in assisted telephonic communications, intended to help users who are hearing impaired use the telephone system. A relay connects a hearing user with the assisted user. The relay creates a text message stream containing the words spoken by the hearing user. The relay then combines the digital characters of the text message with packets of digitized voice spoken by the hearing user and sends the combined digital data packets to the station of the assisted user. The station of the assisted user is capable of separating the voice from the text and displaying the text for reading by the assisted user.
A method for transmitting voice and text of words over a telephonic connection between a hearing user and an assisted user through a relay, the method comprising the steps of digitizing the voice of the hearing user;
A system for assisting a user in telephonic communications with a hearing user, the system adapted to communicate with an assisted user station capable of displaying text for the assisted user, the system comprising a relay capable of converting spoken voice received over the first telephonic connection into text;
A method capable of transmitting both voice and text of words over a telephonic connection to facilitate a conversation between two users, the method comprising the steps of digitizing the voice of a first of the users;
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.