It is essential that each state or telecommunications carrier
provide appropriate outreach to make Speech-to-Speech available
and useable to Americans with moderate speech disabilities. I
strongly urge adoption of the requirement that Speech-to-Speech
service be available within two years throughout the US, to
enable all Americans to use the telephone.


Artificial Language Laboratory
405 Computer Center
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1042
United States of America

Phone: (517) 353-5399, (517) 353-0870
Fax: (517) 353-4766
e-mail: artlang@ pilot. msu. edu
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