A communication system and method usable to facilitate communication between a hearing user and an assisted user. In particular, the system employs a wireless portable tablet or other portable electronic computing device linked to a captioning enabled phone as a remote interface for that phone, thereby providing an assisted user with more options, more freedom, and improved usability of the system.

A system that is capable of receiving and interpreting a user's spoken commands is also coupled to a television interface device that controls video programming content displayed the user's television. The user can speak commands to cause certain programs to be played, and to control various functions of the television. The system can track and analyze a user's video viewing habits. In addition, the system is able to determine which of multiple users might be interested in a particular video program, and the system can play marketing messages regarding that video program to those users that might be interested in viewing the video program.

A captioning relay for captioning hearing user (HU) voice signals comprising a plurality of separate captioning resources and a captioning administrator module that receives HU voice signal segments corresponding to a plurality of separate ongoing calls between HUs and AUs and provides the voice signal segments in a first in, first out order to the captioning resources, the administrator module providing each voice signal segment from each call to any one of the captioning resources to be captioned without regard to which captioning resource captioned prior voice signal segments generated during the call and, the administrator module further receiving caption segments back from the captioning resources and providing those captioning segments to AU devices associated with the calls that generated corresponding HU voice signal segments, and wherein the number of captioning resources is less than the number of ongoing calls.

A terminal can have at least one audio interface for at least one microphone, at least one audio interface for at least one speaker, an operator control module and at least one interface for connecting to at least one telephony- and/or IP-telephony-compatible terminal. The terminal can be configured as a media hub for the at least one telephony- or IP-telephony-compatible terminal. The terminal can have a media processing unit for mixing and a media hub controller or controlling media streams received by the at least one telephony- or IP-telephony-compatible terminal and the at least one telephony- or IP-telephony-compatible terminal can be operated through the operator control module of the telecommunication terminal. A method for controlling media streams through a media hub controlled integrated into a telecommunication terminal is also disclosed.

Methods and apparatuses for managing accessibility features for mobile devices are described. Accessibility features may facilitate a user to interface with his/her mobile device and may be referred to as user-interface parameters configured to generate output or to receive input. The mobile device may generate an accessibility icon corresponding to one or more user-interface parameters selected by the user. The mobile device may also store a set of values provided by the user, where individual values correspond to individual user-interface parameters. Subsequently, the mobile device displays the accessibility icon such that the user may actuate the accessibility icon to adjust the user-interface parameters based on the values. Further, the user-interface parameters may be adjusted to more than one set of values. The mobile device may generate multiple accessibility icons that each correspond to different collections of the user-interface parameters.

A communications device and method are provided for converting speech to text and applying corrections to the text. The communications device may include at least one audio interface, such a microphone and/or speaker, and at least one communications subsystem, as well as a controller or processor operative to receive speech input using the at least one audio interface, convert the speech input to input text, correct the input text to corrected text, and send the corrected text over a network using the communications subsystem. The corrected text may involve the application of proposed modification, such as a grammatical correction or ambiguity resolution, to the input text. The application of the proposed modification may be based upon the receipt of an instruction to accept or reject the proposed correction or resolution. The instruction may be a spoken instruction.

Systems and methods are provided for text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion in wireless devices such as wireless telephones, remote facilities, and land-based devices such as land-line telephones. A wireless telephone, such as a personal cellular telephone, is provided that converts audio data such as a voice message into text data such that a user can view the contents of the voice message as text on the user's wireless telephone.

A method and system for operating a multitenancy telephony system including receiving a plurality of call requests associated with an application server; selecting a subset of the received call requests using a load balancer; assigning each selected call request to one of a plurality of resources creating, on the assigned resource, a call session for each selected call request; and coordinating the created call sessions resulting from the selected subset of the received call requests associated with the application server.

One or more location-based clients can be activated on a mobile device for providing location-based services. The location-based clients can be provided with information (e.g., presets, defaults) related to the current location and/or mode of the mobile device. The information can be obtained from one or more network resources. In some implementations, a location-based client can concurrently display map and vehicle information related to a location of the mobile device.

A distributed voice applications system includes a voice services instruction rendering agent and at least one voice services software client that is configured to provide voice applications to an individual user. A management system may control and direct the voice services rendering agent to create voice applications that are personalized for individual users based on user characteristics, information about the environment in which the voice applications will be performed, prior user interactions and other information. The voice services software client may be resident on a local user device which includes a voice browser and speech recognition capabilities. The local device, voice services instruction rendering agent and the management system may be interconnected via a communications network.