System for text assisted telephony
AssigneeUltratec, Inc.
InventorsRobert M Engelke, Kevin R Colwell
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Abstract
A method of and system for facilitating a captioned conversation between a hard of hearing user using a hard of hearing user's captioned device and a hearing user, the method including the steps of establishing communication between the captioned device and a hard of hearing user's phone device that is independent of the captioned device, and establishing communication between the captioned device and a relay for communicating a text communication from the relay to the captioned device, the text communication including a text transcript corresponding to a hearing user's voice signal transmitted to the hard of hearing user's phone device from a hearing user's phone device.
Claims28
A method of facilitating a captioned conversation between a hard of hearing user using a hard of hearing user's captioned device and a hearing user, the method comprising the steps of:
- establishing communication between the captioned device and a hard of hearing user's phone device that is independent of the captioned device;
- and
- establishing communication between the captioned device and a relay for communicating a text communication from the relay to the captioned device, the text communication comprising a text transcript corresponding to a hearing user's voice signal transmitted to the hard of hearing user's phone device from a hearing user's phone device;
- and
- routing the hearing user's voice signal from the hearing user's phone device to the relay through the captioned device.
A communication system, comprising:
- a relay configured to:
- receive a hearing user's voice signal from a captioned device while the captioned device is in communication with a hard of hearing user's cellular phone device that is independent of the captioned device, the hearing user's voice signal originating at a hearing user's phone device in a call with the hard of hearing user's cellular phone device;
- and
- transmit a text communication comprising a text transcription corresponding to the hearing user's voice signal to the captioned device for display to a hard of hearing user.
A communication system, comprising:
- a hard of hearing user's wireless phone device configured to:
- establish communication with a captioned device that is independent of the hard of hearing user's phone device;
- receive a hearing user's voice signal originating at a hearing user's phone device;
- provide the hearing user's voice signal to a relay configured to generate a text communication comprising a text transcription corresponding to the hearing user's voice signal;
- receive a hard of hearing user's voice signal;
- transmit the hard of hearing user's voice signal to the hearing user's phone device;
- and
- transmit the hearing user's voice signal to the captioned device;
- wherein the hard of hearing user's phone device is usable independent of the captioned device to facilitate a voice conversation with a hearing user using the hearing user's device.
A communication system comprising:
- a hard of hearing user's captioned device, the captioned device including a display screen and a processor, the captioned device configured to:
- establish communication with a hard of hearing user's wireless phone device that is independent of the hard of hearing user's captioned device;
- receive a hearing user's voice signal originating at a hearing user's phone device used by a hearing user from the hard of hearing user's phone device;
- establish a first communication link with a relay;
- route the hearing user's voice signal via the first communication link to the relay for transcription;
- receive a text communication originating at the relay and directly from the relay without passing through the hard of hearing user's wireless phone device, the text communication corresponding to a transcription of the hearing user's voice signal;
- and
- display a text caption corresponding the text communication on the display of the hard of hearing user's captioned device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.