Video Conferencing

Video Conferencing Case Study

Vidyo Platform Enables mobitoki’s Videoconferencing Based Sign Language Interpretation Service in Poland

Challenge:

Help Poland comply with EU legal requirements to make public services available to deaf and hard-of-hearing citizens in their national sign language, given a scarcity of sign language interpreters.

Solution:

Vidyo API, as the basis of mobitoki’s toktutok videoconferencing-based sign language interpretation service VidyoDesktop VidyoMobile VidyoRouter VidyoPortal

Results:

The toktutok service overcomes communication barriers, removes stress and minimizes misunderstanding for deaf medical patients and users of other government services throughout Poland. A potential 40,000 public sites in Poland can efficiently and cost-effectively use Poland’s 150 sign language interpreters via high-quality video. The Vidyo-based service works via commodity PCs and even in areas with poor Internet services, with sufficient quality to capture nuances of fast-moving finger and hand movements.

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