There's a bug already for it.

We've given the possibility not only for the hearing impaired; we also
discussed it as a built in translator for multiple languages.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1222094

On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 12:09 PM, Jamie Charlton <[email protected]>
wrote:

> If there is anything I can do to help please let me know. I am mostly fxos
> qa, so I know they OS rather well and can help with most things for
> testing. I am really wanting to help with making this a reality!
>
> Sandip Kamat wrote:
>
> Hi Jamie,
>
> yes, We have discussed this use case in the Vaani team as well.
> Accessibility is one of our primary intents for Vaani and speech API.
>
> Free speech (/natural language) needs to be decoded online as practicality
> of having an entire dictionary decoded offline is difficult. Our current
> offline solution works with a handful of configurable commands so we can
> keep the library sizes and quality in check.
>
> But we will continue discussing the right approach here.
>
> Sandip
>
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 8:31 AM, Jamie Charlton <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> As of right now no phone platform that i know of has voice to text for
>> phone calls for hearing impaired. I talked to a person from vanni and the
>> fxos accessibility team at the work week and they said it would be 100%
>> doable to take the speech to text engine from vanni and use it for
>> accessibility for speech to text in phone calls for the hearing impaired.
>> Can we please take the engine use it to pass a phone call through a buffer
>> to the speech to text engine and put the words on the screen for hearing
>> impaired?
>>
>> thank you,
>> Jamie Charlton
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