| Hello Friends! I was looking up the internet to find some | | | | and the response given by the call receiving party is |
| relay call services for one of friends, I came across | | | | captioned by the operator to the hearing impaired |
| something called Captioning service for telephone calls | | | | individual, and this process continues. |
| of hard of hearing and the hearing impaired individuals. I | | | | Captioning service is provided for both in bound calls |
| was curious to find out more about it, so I did a bit of | | | | and out bound calls initiated to and from a hearing |
| research and I discovered that this is similar to relay | | | | impaired individual and most of the companies provide |
| call service but it is an improvement over the latter. | | | | this service free of cost.Availing or using this service is |
| There is a small limitation it has over relay calls; it | | | | also made easy by these companies. All one has to |
| cannot be used by the speak impaired individuals but it | | | | do is sign up with these companies, provide them with |
| is definitely an improvement for the Hearing Impaired. | | | | the basic information that they ask for, on receipt of |
| Let me describe how this works: There are 3 parties | | | | the information you will be sent the login credentials |
| involved in this service too as in relay call service. | | | | and the procedure of usage to the email address you |
| 1. The hearing impaired/hard of hearing (Calling Party) | | | | provided. |
| 2. The Called Party or the call receiving Party. | | | | Bingo! You can start using it. |
| 3. Operator. | | | | I would like to add to the details mentioned above; one |
| The hearing impaired individual calls the captioning | | | | could use any phone IP or cellular to use this service. |
| service operator and also dials the number of call | | | | I hope this information would prove to be helpful to the |
| receiving party, he speaks to the call receiving party | | | | hearing impaired and hard of hearing community. |