Visual Sound Phone Concept Shows The Friendly Side Of Innovation, Let’s Deaf Make Phone Calls

Hearing impairment often leads people to use some mysterious looking and almost-useless gadgets and when they try to use a phone, it’s a complete disaster often amusing the people in the atmosphere when they yell Hellooow!

Pratt Institute student Suhyun Kim, has put some mind and soul work into designing a phone for the deaf or for impaired hearing. It is called the Visual Sound, and the name is most definitely derived from its functionality.

The Visual Sound Phone looks like a modern day electronic scroll with two scroll bars at either ends that reveal a transparent touchscreen when distanced, allowing you to tap messages or make and receive calls.

While no detailed characteristics about the touchscreen material or its features have been told, it is said that the touch screen would enable one to tap messages on it, which will be automatically converted to voice for the other person on line using its inbuilt text-to-speech-and-vice-versa software engine.

Deaf Phone Communication : Visual Sound Phone

Particularly designed for people with hearing impairment or deaf phone users, this Visual Sound phone with deaf phone relay should find a novel stance in the best interest of human care, if it finds itself company branding for a touch of reality.

You know of anyone with a hearing impairment in the neighbourhood, try gifting them this phone with a courteous non-misleading message, and we’ll tell you when the time is ripe for this deaf phone communication to hit reality. So, stay tuned!