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These tend to be carried out more on landlines rather that mobiles (in the UK). any alternatives?

That is the idea. But since the app is more oriented at informal situation it would be more like "hello this is John Doe. I am deaf and using special app, please be patient"

Guys, Just a note I have read that a hearing person will hang up in seconds when hearing an artificial voice. That is true, but it was already covered in the design, the app plays an introductory, prerecorded message that explains the state of things, the user will now when this is finished...

wow, that was concise

Thanks to all of you guys, you were very helpful and frank. I have a question, do you feel that the introduction of ready made phrases which you could expand and modify would increase the usability of the app?

What I mean by Android provides enunciation is it does Text To Speech (words translated into robotic voice) without the need for third party software.

Thanks for feedback, really the accuracy of the SR is part of testing, what we're talking about here is design. At the moment I am focusing on android to have a quick prototype to show during later user studies. I am not doing this for money.

Guys, just to be clear we don't want to dictate stuff, we want enable people to make phone calls as normally as possible. You don't need other apps to enunciate via the phone android does that for you. Again thanks for the feedback. Have you guys heard of software such as mobileASL...

Sorry, as I said I am currently researching to design the app, it is not ready for release

Yes ambrosia, the Text to speech is part of android and can be easilly implemented. I can understand your points guys about the speech recognition guys but by using the cloud and post editing techniques you'd be surprised what can be achieved, don't use windows recognition as your baseline...

Irish, the app development is my problem, what I would like from you guys is like tell me what you need. What functionality you need even if you think it can't be done. You don't have to speak to use the app. Only the hearing person who calls you has to speak

Thanks

That is the point of the research guys, to improve the crap that is out there. Yes the app does both TTS and STT. I have a prototype running. You see by using google cloud services it is free, as opposed to dragon where you pay, and where you have no internet connection it uses a library...

Just to be clear the app does not translate the voice of the deaf person. The deaf person types with his preferred keyboard, the only one who talks here is the hearing person.

Wow lot's of feedback thanks. If this is unclear, the app would translate what the person is saying into text. You can reply using your favourite text entry method. I do not see the connection with youtube CC. My app is for making phone calls. According to my research in some areas outwith the...

My research does not focus on speech recognition but also on text entry and other design aspects which I need to discuss with deaf participants

Anyone interested in taking part in the disussion please contact me at deafimapp@hotmail.it

I am focusing on design aspects at the moment.

@ A Nihilist, with modern algorithms, there is very high accuracy we are talking about 70 80 percent. It's not perfect, but it is a research project

The application would use both embedded speech recognition provided by the phone and speech recognition provided by google, there is also an algorithm for correction, but as I said the app needs to be designed first. What needs to be discussed is also your methods of entering text on the phone...