TESSA, a system to aid communication with deaf people

Stephen J. Cox; Michael Lincoln; Judy Tryggvason; Melanie Nakisa; Mark Wells; Marcus Tutt; Sanja Abbott

doi:10.1145/638249.638287

TESSA, a system to aid communication with deaf people

Stephen J. Cox, Michael Lincoln, Judy Tryggvason, Melanie Nakisa, Mark Wells, Marcus Tutt, Sanja Abbott

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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.

Original language	English
Pages	205-212
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/638249.638287
Publication status	Published - Jul 2002
Event	ASSETS 2002, Fifth International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies - Edinburgh, Scotland Duration: 8 Jul 2002 → 10 Jul 2002

Conference

Conference	ASSETS 2002, Fifth International ACM SIGCAPH Conference on Assistive Technologies
City	Edinburgh, Scotland
Period	8/07/02 → 10/07/02

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