Voice contact with call centres, or making appointments and reservations, or simple voice-based chats with friends and coworkers are opening to profoundly deaf people, with apps.
An app created in Italy, Pedius, joins Transcence, RogerVoice, VoxSense and Speak2See in making spoken dialogue visible on smartphones in group and one-to-one contexts.
Read: Pedius app converts speech to text in real time
At Ireland’s Web Summit in November 2014, Pedius teamed with Blueface, the Dublin-based unified telecommunications platform to extend its operations to Ireland and the UK.
Pedius will go live in more EU countries with solutions for phone call use to validate service-users, a particular aim being for its calls to seem less-automated to service providers.
