Machine Learning and telecom are combined to change communication, as summarized in the document discussing the startup Deaftel, which allows deaf, hard of hearing, and those with speech impediments to talk to anyone over the phone by converting voice to text and vice versa using their smartphone application and an AI assistant. Deaftel began as an entry in a programming contest using Twilio but gained interest from the deaf community who needed an alternative to complex relay services.
Deaftel is a phone service that allows deaf, hard of hearing, and speech impaired individuals to communicate with anyone over the phone by converting voice to text and vice versa using their smartphone app. The service originated as an entry for a Twilio programming contest but gained interest from emails from the deaf community about their communication challenges, and it quickly acquired over 500 users on the first day without any advertising.
Deaftel is a phone service that allows deaf, hard of hearing, and speech impaired individuals to communicate with anyone over the phone through text. It works by having a Deaftel user type messages on their smartphone which are then read aloud by a robot to the hearing caller, and the hearing caller's voice is transcribed to text for the Deaftel user. The service was originally created as an entry for a programming contest and gained over 500 users on the first day without any advertising due to requests from the deaf community for such a service.
The document describes the current problem of people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have speech impediments not being able to communicate easily over the phone and outlines Deaftel as a proposed phone service that allows text-based communication between these users and anyone via a mobile app. It provides background on how Deaftel originated from an app development contest entry and gained interest from emails and signups from the deaf community, demonstrating a need for the service.
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This document describes a proposed voice chat and social networking service for mobile subscribers. The service would allow subscribers to:
1) Create a profile with personal details and set preferences for contact.
2) Browse profiles of other subscribers and initiate voice conversations after verifying contact permissions.
3) Join or create persistent "chat rooms" to connect with friends and discuss topics of shared interest in real-time.
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Deaftel is a phone service that allows deaf, hard of hearing, and speech impaired individuals to communicate with anyone over the phone by converting voice to text and vice versa using their smartphone app. The service originated as an entry for a Twilio programming contest but gained interest from emails from the deaf community about their communication challenges, and it quickly acquired over 500 users on the first day without any advertising.
Deaftel is a phone service that allows deaf, hard of hearing, and speech impaired individuals to communicate with anyone over the phone through text. It works by having a Deaftel user type messages on their smartphone which are then read aloud by a robot to the hearing caller, and the hearing caller's voice is transcribed to text for the Deaftel user. The service was originally created as an entry for a programming contest and gained over 500 users on the first day without any advertising due to requests from the deaf community for such a service.
The document describes the current problem of people who are deaf, hard of hearing, or have speech impediments not being able to communicate easily over the phone and outlines Deaftel as a proposed phone service that allows text-based communication between these users and anyone via a mobile app. It provides background on how Deaftel originated from an app development contest entry and gained interest from emails and signups from the deaf community, demonstrating a need for the service.
The document describes a voice chat and friend-finding service with the following key features:
1. It allows users to subscribe to a service to find and chat with friends by voice. 2. The service has options to search for friends by gender, find a friend by ID, or see recently added friends. 3. Users can create a profile, generate a chat ID, and bar calls from certain IDs. 4. The service also has group chat rooms and the ability to join a friend's chat room.
This document describes a proposed voice chat and social networking service for mobile subscribers. The service would allow subscribers to:
1) Create a profile with personal details and set preferences for contact.
2) Browse profiles of other subscribers and initiate voice conversations after verifying contact permissions.
3) Join or create persistent "chat rooms" to connect with friends and discuss topics of shared interest in real-time.
The service aims to bring the social connectivity of online platforms to mobile devices through an always-available voice network using the subscriber's mobile number as their identity. It is presented as a new potential revenue-generating service for telecom operators.
This document provides guidance on how to evaluate Voice over IP (VoIP) phone systems. It explains that VoIP vendors often exaggerate what their systems can do. The document aims to help businesses understand the technical jargon, options, and potential pitfalls of purchasing new VoIP solutions. It also notes that successfully deploying IP telephony requires cooperation between telephone and IT professionals due to the complex challenges of phones and computers sharing a common platform.
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1. We combine
Machine Learning
with telecom to
change communication.
Kunal Batra Vahid Hamidullah
CEO CTO
2.
3. 2
Current Problem
• Imagine calling a loved one, Doctor, Lawyer
• Can’t speak directly
• Complex Procedure (special code words)
• No privacy
• 16% of the worlds population currently suffer
from profound hearing loss that hinders their
communication. – Phonak.com
4. Current Market
• According to John Hopkins Medicine, “Nearly a fifth of all
Americans 12 years or older have hearing loss so severe
that it may make communication difficult”
• 48 million people in the USA.
• 800 million worldwide.
• The current market size in the USA for hearing
services/devices is $5.7 billion dollars
(According to iData Research). Worldwide $10
billion.
5. 3
Current Calling Procedure
Step 2 Step 5 Step 6
Step 1 Caller provides the Step 3 Step 4 The Relay Operator
When the parties
Caller dials 7-1-1. A relay operator with The Relay Operator Both the caller and are ready to end
will type everything
Relay Operator will the number along dials that number, the called parties the call, the caller
they hear back to
answer the call by with other announces to the should use "GA" or or call recipient
the TTY user, and
saying "New York information such as called party that "Go Ahead" when uses "SK" or
voice everything
Relay," and his/her their name, the they are receiving a they are finished "Signing Off" to
the TTY user types
Operator ID #. person they are relay call. typing/talking. close the
to the called party.
calling, etc. conversation.
(Source: www.nyrelay.com)
6. 4
About Deaftel
Deaftel is a phone service that lets the Deaf, Hard of Hearing & those with
speech impediments talk to anyone over the phone.
Voice Text
Any Hearing User Deaftel Smartphone
Deaftel Robot User
7. History
How we went from a Social Network for Indians
to a Phone Service for the Deaf & Hard of Hearing.
?
8. History
Social Roots needed a way for Business Owners to verify their
business on our site. (Pictured on the left is my absolute favorite
Indian restaurant Utsav!)
I found out about Twilio through a Techcrunch article and it was
love at first api. Started to enter their programming contests in my
downtime.
I entered their anything goes contest with a random idea of creating
a java chat box where I converted voice to text and text back into voice.
I DIDN’T WIN THE CONTEST
9. History
Forgot about the programming contest and went back to trying
convince Indian Businesses why they need to pay me a lot of money
For the services Social Roots can offer their business.
They would listen to my pitch & then ask me to explain “What email is”
A week after the programming contest finished, the programmable web
made my Twilio entry their mashup of the day.
My inbox started to fill up with compelling emails from the Deaf
community on how they need my service.
10. 5
History of Deaftel
Contest Entry
Began as a contest entry for
“I am profoundly hearing impaired. I do not the “Anything Goes” Twilio
Programming Contest.
sign. …Many places like doctor's offices will not
use a relay/tty service to call me about
appointment changes. They just wait till I drive Emails
2 hours then tell me there that my While working on my
previous startup
appointment was changed…I am desperate!” Socialroots.com, I just kept
receiving emails from the
deaf community asking to
use this service.
-R
Deaftel Signup
By the end of the first day I
had a little over 500 users
signup showing their
interest. There was no
advertising other than
creating a Facebook and
Twitter page.
Hey guys my name is kunal batra and I am the founder of Deaftel, a new type of phone service for the deaf. Now I am going to go out on a limb here and say that either all of you or almost all of you will not be users of my product. So before I go on any further I just want you to imagine this scenario. Your calling your husband/wife/a loved one, a doctor or a lawyer. However instead of speaking with them directly, your talking to somebody at a call center( could be male or female). Whatever you say, they relay to the person your calling. And then the same applies in the other direction. Whatever your loved one says gets spoken to the person in the call center than this relay operator speaks the message back to you. This happens until the conversation is over. However the conversation is only over until you speak a certain special word that the relay operator recognizes and then will disconnect the call. There is no true sense of privacy. However privacy is not the only issue.
There is also a complexity with the system. If you wanted to call a deaf individual you can’t dial his or her number directly. You have to call the relay operator. So if you live in the state of new york you dial 711 which connects you with the relay operator service. Then you provide the relay operator with certain pieces of information such as the number of the deaf person you want to call, their name and your name. Also every time someone is done talking they have to either say “Go Ahead” or the deaf person has to type it if using text relay. And finally when the conversation is over either the deaf or hearing person has to say or type the words Signing Off.
So with Deaftel, I want to transform the current method of making phone calls to be as close as possible to how you or do it on a daily basis. A hearing user can directly dial the deaf users phone number. Deaftel converts the voice of the hearing user into text and sends that to the deaftel users smart phone. The text response of the Deaftel user is then converted into voice(male or female based on the gender of the deaftel user) and then played for the hearing user. No special codewords needed. The Deaftel user will be able just purchase a phone plan based on how many minutes he or she expects to use from our website just like a hearing person does from att, verizon or sprint and will be billed on a monthly basis. I use the image of the robot shown in the slide to emphasize the fact that there is no person sitting inbetween your phone call which makes for a more private conversation.
So before I go into the demo I just quickly want to go over why I created Deaftel since its always the first question I get asked. I am not deaf nor do I know anybody who is deaf. So while working on my previous Start Up Social Roots. I decided to enter Twilio’s holiday anything goes contest in december of last year. I created the first prototype of deaftel and called it hipfone. It was just javascript/php based. I didn’t win but became a runner up, so twilio wrote a short blurb on their blog. That somehow got picked up on a few other blogs. So starting from January of 2011 I started receiving these compelling emails from people in the deaf community asking me when they could use my service. I pasted one of the emails that really touched me on the slide. So around November and some hundred emails later I decided to work on this full time and see if there was a demand. So I created a landing page describing what the service does and a twitter account and started following the max number of people twitter would allow me which was 2000. I used it as as kind of a cheap way of advertising. Within the first 2 hours out of the 2000 people I followed 500 visited the website and left their email stating they were interested or other relay operators asking how my product worked and asking to meet up and discuss my solution in person.