2011/3/3 Gunnar Hellström <[email protected]>: > Some of the situations I think about are deaf-related. > -E.g. a typing interpreter during a conference typing for a number of deaf > and hard-of-hearing participants, either local or remote. > -And also the traditional relay service with a communications assistant > typing and reading can sometimes benefit from the text being sent to both > other parties in the three-party call. > -Any kind of subtitling on the fly to a group of users, may it be of > language reasons or of deafness reasons. > -In a regular group chat, it is good if you can check what the others are > typing and follow their thoughts before you start typing yourself. - Up to > some number of users, when it becomes less practical to check all. Still one > dominating contributer will be good to get in real-time. > ( I think ICQ had a limit of 7 participants in real-time )
And there's also non-deaf issues. - My spouse is a court reporter. Sometimes there's a need for real time text. I've got some creative ideas in this department, too. - Live Closed captioning on TV, also used to bypass non-deaf language barriers, requires real time text. XMPP RTT can technically be used as a protocol for such systems, especially if off-the-shelf mainstream real time text software becomes common enough in the future (especially if Google someday implements my spec it in GMAIL's chat client). Then caption operators can work from anywhere without downloading expensive software.
