Tzipporah.Benavraham@f632.n278.z1.fidonet.org (Tzipporah Benavraham) (06/17/91)
Index Number: 16053
[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
06/03 0805 SANYO ELECTRIC DEVELOPS LARGE-SCALE INTEGRATED ...
OSAKA (JUNE 3) - SANYO ELECTRIC CO. SAID MONDAY IT HAS
DEVELOPED A LARGE-SCALE INTEGRATED CIRCUIT (LSI) DECODER THAT
WILL HELP THE DEAF UNDERSTAND SPOKEN WORDS ON TELEVISION.
SANYO ANNOUNCED THE DEVELOPMENT AFTER A RECENT LAW PASSED
BY THE U.S. GOVERNMENT REQUIRING TELEVISION MAKERS TO INSTALL
CLOSED CAPTION DECODERS IN TV SETS STARTING IN JULY 1993 TO
AID THE DEAF.
THE DECODER HAS THREE CHIPS WHICH TRANSLATE THE SPOKEN
WORDS OF PERFORMERS ON TELEVISION PROGRAMS AND PRINTS THE
DIALOGUE IN A CLOSED CAPTION BOX ON THE SCREEN FOR EASY
READING.
OFFICIALS SAID SAMPLE SHIPMENTS OF THE DECODER WILL
BEGIN IN AUGUST. EACH DECODER IS PRICED AT 3,000 YEN,
THEY SAID.
SANYO PLANS TO EXHIBIT THE DECODER AT SYMPOSIUM ON JUNE
7 IN CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.
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Index Number: 16081
[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]
ROANOKE, VIRGINIA, U.S.A., 1991 JUN 11 (NB) -- BellSouth has
modified Northern Telecom's Meridien Mail system to create a
"voice mail for the deaf" system at the Community College of
Philadelphia's Center on Disability.
Roseana Yoder, a systems designer for BellSouth Communication
Systems, modified the voice mail system so that
Telecommunications Devices for the Deaf, or TDDs, could interact
with it. Meridian Mail is part of a 1,400-line Northern Telecom
Meridian One telephone system installed at the college by
BellSouth.
Hearing impaired callers routinely access the Center during
normal working hours using a TDD device, by keying in their
message through the telephone line. The person at the other end
of the line -- using a similar device -- types back a response
which is readable on the one-line video display of the terminal.
During off-hours, the hearing impaired can interact, through
their TDDs, with a special message "written" in touch tone. About
12 students and 5 faculty members make regular use of the
service.
(Dana Blankenhorn/19910611/Press Contact: Jeff Nichols BellSouth
Communication Systems, 703-983-6071; Noel Weyrich, Community
College of Philadelphia, 215-751-8044)
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