Literature Reviews

Reviewed research papers, articles, and publications relevant to digital accessibility.

3 results found tagged VoIP.

EasyVoice: Integrating Voice Synthesis with Skype

Paulo A. Condado, Fernando G. Lobo (2007) — Proceedings of the 9th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (Assets '07)

This paper presents EasyVoice, a system developed at the University of Algarve that integrates text-to-speech synthesis with Skype to enable people with voice disabilities to have real-time phone conversations. The core insight is that while TTS syst…
Factors Affecting the Accessibility of Voice Telephony for People with Hearing Loss: Audio Encoding, Network Impairments, Video and Environmental Noise

Linda Kozma-Spytek, Christian Vogler (2021) — ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing

This comprehensive study from Gallaudet University investigates how audio quality parameters affect voice telephony accessibility for people with hearing loss. The research combines a survey of 439 individuals with hearing loss and four controlled ex…
Voice Telephony for Individuals with Hearing Loss: The Effects of Audio Bandwidth, Bit Rate and Packet Loss

Linda Kozma-Spytek, Paula Tucker, Christian Vogler (2019) — Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

This paper presents three experiments conducted over three years with a total of 114 individuals with hearing loss (68 cochlear implant users and 46 hearing aid users) and 12 hearing controls, investigating how audio quality parameters in telecommuni…