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2. Telecommunications device for the deaf - Wikipedia

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   A telecommunications device for the deaf ( TDD) is a teleprinter, an electronic device for text communication over a telephone line, that is designed for use by persons with hearing or speech difficulties. Other names for the device include teletypewriter ( TTY ), textphone (common in Europe ), and minicom ( United Kingdom ).

3. Telecommunications relay service - Wikipedia

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   A telecommunications relay service, also known as TRS, relay service, or IP-relay, or Web-based relay service, is an operator service that allows people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or have a speech disorder to place calls to standard telephone users via a keyboard or assistive device. Originally, relay services were designed to be ...

4. Assistive Technology for Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Wikipedia

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   Similar to Voice Carry Over Telephone (VCO), The Internet Protocol (IP) Relay Service is used by Deaf or Hard of Hearing people can use the phone, but sometimes they cannot hear and don't understand voices on the phone. IP relay is accessible through the internet and allows the person to communicate by text.

5. Video relay service - Wikipedia

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   t. e. A video relay service ( VRS ), also sometimes known as a video interpreting service ( VIS ), is a video telecommunication service that allows deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech-impaired (D-HOH-SI) individuals to communicate over video telephones and similar technologies with hearing people in real-time, via a sign language interpreter .

6. Royal National Institute for Deaf People - Wikipedia

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   During the 1980s it developed the Telephone Exchange for the Deaf, a pioneering relay service allowing telephone users and deaf "textphone" users to communicate with each other using a third-party operator to relay voice and text communication. This became the service known as Typetalk in 1991, funded by BT but operated on their behalf by RNID ...

7. Chinese whispers - Wikipedia

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   Chinese whispers (some Commonwealth English ), or telephone ( American English and Canadian English ), [1] is an internationally popular children's game in which messages are whispered from person to person and then the original and final messages are compared. [2] This sequential modification of information is called transmission chaining in ...

8. Paul Taylor (engineer) - Wikipedia

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   Paul Taylor (15 November 1939 – 11 January 2021) [1] [2] [3] was an American engineer, a pioneer in development of telecommunications devices for the deaf (also known as TTYs). [4] He also enjoyed a kind of celebrity status because of his central role in the award-winning documentary Hear and Now. The film by daughter Irene Taylor Brodsky ...

9. Videotelephony - Wikipedia

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   Videotelephony (also known as videoconferencing or video call) is the use of audio and video for simultaneous two-way communication. [1] There are many terms to refer to videotelephony. Videophones are standalone devices for video calling (compare Telephone ). In the present day, devices like smartphones and computers are capable of video ...