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| Title: | TESSA, a system to aid communication with deaf people |
| Authors: | Cox, Stephen
Lincoln, Michael
Tryggvason, Judy
Nakisa, Melanie
Wells, Mark
Tutt, Marcus
Abbott, Sanja |
| Issue Date: | Jul-2002 |
| Citation: | In Proceedings of the fifth international ACM conference on Assistive technologies, Edinburgh, Scotland. pp. 205-212 |
| Publisher: | ACM Press |
| Abstract: | TESSA is an experimental system that aims to aid transactions between a deaf person and a clerk in a Post Office by translating the clerk's speech to sign language. A speech recogniser recognises speech from the clerk and the system then synthesizes the appropriate sequence of signs in British Sign language (BSL) using a specially-developed avatar. By using a phrase lookup approach to language translation, which is appropriate for the highly constrained discourse in a Post Office, we were able to build a working system that we could evaluate. We summarise the results of this evaluation (undertaken by deaf users and Post office clerks), and discuss how the findings from the evaluation are being used in the development of an improved system. |
| Keywords: | Aids for the Deaf
avatars
interactive systems
speech recognition
translation systems |
| URI: | http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/638249.638287
http://hdl.handle.net/1842/960 |
| Appears in Collections: | CSTR publications
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