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A telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) is a teleprinter, an electronic device for text communication over a telephone line, that is designed for use by persons with hearing or speech difficulties. Other names for the device include teletypewriter (TTY), textphone (common in Europe), and minicom (United Kingdom).
Once the most common type of TRS call, TTY calls involve a call from a deaf or hard-of-hearing person who utilizes a TTY to a hearing person. In this type of call, typed messages are relayed as voice messages by a TRS operator, [1] (also known as Communication Assistant (CA), [2] Relay Operator (RO), [3] Relay Assistant (RA), [4] or relay agent (agent)), and vice versa.
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Each TDD has a keyboard with a text screen. A user either needs to connect with another person that has a TDD or use a relay service that can convert the text into voice for the hearing listener receiving the call. With the improvements in technology for phones, pagers, text devices and computer services, the use of the TDD has declined. [3]
In the 1990s and 2000s, this included encouraging pay telephone providers to incorporate TTY keyboards into pay telephones. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The organization's advocacy efforts include lobbying the Federal Communications Commission for better and more intuitive caption display settings on a variety of devices and services.
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Technologies include TDD/TTY devices for the deaf, live captioning for TV, Text over IP (ToIP), some types of instant messaging, captioning for telephony/video teleconferencing, telecommunications relay services including ip-relay, transcription services including Remote CART, TypeWell, collaborative text editing, streaming text applications ...
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