Grossfield K, King R W, Martin M C, Tolcher D J
Br J Audiol. 1982 Feb;16(1):27-38. doi: 10.3109/03005368209081505.
In the autumn of 1980, a 6-week experimental trial of a telephone service for deaf people was carried out with the financial support of NRD, British Telecom, RNID and in collaboration with the Electronics Department at Southampton University. The trial involved 25 deaf people with speech who were supplied with Prestel TV sets which allowed them to receive text from an operator at the bureau who set up the call connections and transcribed the speech of the hearing caller into text. The text was transmitted via the telephone network and displayed on the participant's Prestel receiver. The deaf callers used their telephones in the normal fashion to make their replies. Although the trial had its fair measure of problems, particularly at the start, the experiment proved to be successful. This paper describes the system used for the trial, the trial itself and also attempts to evaluate the requirements of a bureau-based telephone service for the deaf.
1980年秋，在英国国家聋人研究所（NRD）、英国电信公司、英国皇家聋人协会（RNID）的资金支持下，与南安普顿大学电子系合作，开展了一项为期六周的聋人电话服务试验。该试验涉及25名有言语能力的聋人，他们配备了普瑞斯特尔电视机，这使他们能够接收来自电话局操作员的文本信息，操作员建立通话连接并将听力正常的呼叫者的语音转录成文本。文本通过电话网络传输，并显示在参与者的普瑞斯特尔接收器上。聋人呼叫者以正常方式使用电话进行回复。尽管试验存在不少问题，尤其是在开始阶段，但该实验证明是成功的。本文介绍了试验所使用的系统、试验本身，并试图评估基于电话局的聋人电话服务的需求。
