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VoXy phone - A speech-to-text tool for phone users

A tool for deaf and hard of hearing phone users. Will convert the received speech into text.

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VoXy phone - A speech-to-text tool for phone users

VoXy phone - A speech-to-text tool for phone users

VoXy phone - A speech-to-text tool for phone users

VoXy phone - A speech-to-text tool for phone users

VoXy phone - A speech-to-text tool for phone users

A tool for deaf and hard of hearing phone users. Will convert the received speech into text.

A tool for deaf and hard of hearing phone users. Will convert the received speech into text.

A tool for deaf and hard of hearing phone users. Will convert the received speech into text.

A tool for deaf and hard of hearing phone users. Will convert the received speech into text.

Jacques Tremblay
Jacques Tremblay
Jacques Tremblay
Jacques Tremblay
2 Campaigns |
Montreal, Canada
$370 USD 7 backers
1% of $35,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Overview
Are you struggling to understand speech over the phone? If so, we believe VoXy phone is the solution for you! We are developing an application that translates into text any utterance over the phone. Unlike existing technologies to assist the deaf and hard-of-hearing population, it will implement many speech-recognition models for the most faithful interpretation, detect touch-tone tonalities to allow easy transmission of digits and insure privacy of communication.

VoXy phone software will use a telephone coupling module connected to the computer sound card. The software will recognize the components of a noisy incoming speech signal  and convert it into a visually-displayed string of words in the French or English language. The sound-to-text translation will be done in real time and directly (i.e., without the need of any intermediary, whether it is a human telephonist or an application on a multi-user server). Moreover, the speech-recognition process will be based on a best-fit analysis from the output of many models’ algorithms. A self-contained application for Android and IOS phones will also be developed.

We currently have a functioning prototype that relies on Google Chrome’s WebSpeech API. This temporary solution is not desirable as it is contingent upon having:

  1. an internet connexion;
  2. voice transmission across the network;
  3. voice recognition through an external server;
  4. decoded text transmission across the network from the server back to the web application that displays it on screen.

Another drawback of this indirect speech-to-text translation is that the voice-template models used by WebSpeech API have been sampled at a much higher frequency (i.e., higher temporal resolution of signal) than that actually used in digital phone lines, thereby increasing the number of transcription errors. Our system will use an adaptive multi-frequency model that optimizes transcription quality at the receiver's end. Furthermore, it will detect touch-tone tonalities in such a way as to facilitate the unambiguous interpretation of  digits. Indeed, numbers are often very difficult to understand via the phone, even for normal-hearing receivers. Our product will target deaf as well as hard-of-hearing individuals, the latter being on a steep increase with the aging population and thereby representing a large proportion of the market for VoXy phone.

For French version please visit: http://www.voxyphone.com/?lang=fr

Here is our prototype using a telephone coupling device to decode in realtime the received voice over the phone from a voicemail.

 

 

 

 

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Friend of VoXy Phone

$10 USD
As a token of our gratitude, we will send you a thank you email. All contributions are very helpful and lots of small contributions can make this product come true and help people.
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February 2017
1 claimed

Android Enthusiasts

$25 USD
You will receive the Android mobile version of VoXy Phone free of charge when it is available.
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November 2017
0 claimed

Desktop

$200 USD
You will receive the desktop version of the VoXy phone application. You will need a telephone coupling module to use the application over the phone but the network version will be fully functional.
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November 2017
0 claimed

Full

$500 USD
This perk will entitle you to receive the full package including the desktop version and a telephone coupling module. You will also receive the Android version. We cannot send you an IOS version but we will make sure that you receive a notification during free promotion period so you can install it for free on IOS !
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November 2017
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