Real-time text
Encyclopedia
Real-time text is streaming text that is continuously transmitted as it is typed or otherwise composed. It allows conversational use of text, where people interactively converse with each other.
software, including AOL Instant Messenger
's "Real-Time IM" feature. Real-time text is also possible over any Jabber or XMPP compatible chat networks, including those used by Apple iChat, Cisco WebEx, and Google Talk
, by using appropriate software that has a real-time text feature. In most software, the feature can be turned on/off, just like other chat features such as audio or video.
, is the utilization of real-time text for shared editing, rather than for conversation. Split screen chat, where conversational text appears continuously, is also considered real-time text.
when captions are being streamed live continuously during live events. Transcription services including Remote CART frequently use real-time text, where text is streamed live to a remote display. Also, real-time text provides an enhancement to text messaging
on mobile phones, via real-time texting apps.
T.140, IETF RFC4103, RFC5194, and XMPP/Jabber Extension Protocol XEP-0301.
Multimedia Recommendation F.700, Total Conversation
defines the simultaneous use of audio, video and real-time text. An instant messaging program that can enable all three features simultaneously, would be compliant. Real time text is an important part of it.
, and older versions of ICQ
messaging software.
Use over instant messaging
Real-time text is found in some instant messagingInstant messaging
Instant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...
software, including AOL Instant Messenger
AOL Instant Messenger
AOL Instant Messenger is an instant messaging and presence computer program which uses the proprietary OSCAR instant messaging protocol and the TOC protocol to allow registered users to communicate in real time. It was released by AOL in May 1997...
's "Real-Time IM" feature. Real-time text is also possible over any Jabber or XMPP compatible chat networks, including those used by Apple iChat, Cisco WebEx, and Google Talk
Google Talk
Google Talk is a freeware voice over Internet protocol client application offered by Google Inc. The first beta version of the program was released on August 24, 2005...
, by using appropriate software that has a real-time text feature. In most software, the feature can be turned on/off, just like other chat features such as audio or video.
Use by the deaf
Real-time text is frequently used by the deaf, including in IP-Relay services and TDD/TTY devices. Real-time text allows the other person to read immediately, without waiting for the sender to finish composing their sentence/message. This allows conversational use of text, much like a hearing person can listen to someone speaking in real-time.Use in collaboration
Collaborative real-time editing, including Apache Wave and EtherPadEtherPad
Etherpad is a web-based collaborative real-time editor, allowing authors to simultaneously edit a text document, and see all of the participants' edits in real-time, with the ability to display each author's text in their own color...
, is the utilization of real-time text for shared editing, rather than for conversation. Split screen chat, where conversational text appears continuously, is also considered real-time text.
Captioning and other uses
Real-time text is used in closed captioningClosed captioning
Closed captioning is the process of displaying text on a television, video screen or other visual display to provide additional or interpretive information to individuals who wish to access it...
when captions are being streamed live continuously during live events. Transcription services including Remote CART frequently use real-time text, where text is streamed live to a remote display. Also, real-time text provides an enhancement to text messaging
Text messaging
Text messaging, or texting, refers to the exchange of brief written text messages between fixed-line phone or mobile phone and fixed or portable devices over a network...
on mobile phones, via real-time texting apps.
Real-time text protocols
Real-time text protocols include Text over IP designed around ITU-TITU-T
The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector is one of the three sectors of the International Telecommunication Union ; it coordinates standards for telecommunications....
T.140, IETF RFC4103, RFC5194, and XMPP/Jabber Extension Protocol XEP-0301.
Total Conversation
According to ITU-TITU-T
The ITU Telecommunication Standardization Sector is one of the three sectors of the International Telecommunication Union ; it coordinates standards for telecommunications....
Multimedia Recommendation F.700, Total Conversation
Total Conversation
In telecommunication, Total Conversation encompasses the use of a Total Conversation service which is defined in ITU-T recommendation F.703 as “An audiovisual conversation service providing bidirectional symmetric real-time transfer of motion video, text and voice between users in two or more...
defines the simultaneous use of audio, video and real-time text. An instant messaging program that can enable all three features simultaneously, would be compliant. Real time text is an important part of it.
History
Real-time text is also historically found in the old UNIX talk (software), BBS software such as Celerity BBSCelerity BBS
Celerity BBS was a descendant of the freely distributed source of TCS BBS 1.43, and ultimately nearly completely rewritten.-Origin:It originally began as a project of Brendon Woirhaye and David Hicks in 1990 to quickly modify an existing BBS package to meet a simple organizational need , and to...
, and older versions of ICQ
ICQ
ICQ is an instant messaging computer program, which was first developed and popularized by the Israeli company Mirabilis, then bought by America Online, and since April 2010 owned by Mail.ru Group. The name ICQ is a homophone for the phrase "I seek you"...
messaging software.