27 Apr 2004

Mike Lincoln

TESSA is a system designed to aid transactions between a deaf person and a counter clerk in a Post Office. The system uses a speech recognition system to recognise speech from the counter clerk and then synthesises the recognised phrase in British Sign Language using a specially developed avatar. I will describe the design, development and evaluation of the system and (ignoring the old adage of 'never work with children, animals or speech recognition systems') give a demonstration of TESSA in action.

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