Patent ID: 7315612
Filing Date: 2008-01-01
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A method for providing communication services for communications between a hearing-impaired party and a hearing party, comprising: establishing a voice link with the hearing party; receiving a first voice message from the hearing party via the voice link; identifying the hearing party based on a telephone number associated with the hearing party; accessing at least one stored file based on the identified hearing party, the at least one stored file including a plurality of words and a plurality of corresponding corrections made by an operator in previous voice messages from the hearing party; generating a first text message corresponding to the first voice message using voice recognition and the at least one stored file, wherein the generating a first text message includes: identifying, in the first voice message, one of the plurality of words stored in the at least one stored file, and using one of the plurality of corrections corresponding to the identified one of the plurality of words as the most likely word for the identified one of the plurality of words voiced in the first voice message; and transmitting the first text message to the hearing-impaired party.