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  2. Telecommunications relay service - Wikipedia

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    A typical relay service conversation. A telecommunications relay service, also known as TRS, relay service, or IP-relay, or Web-based relay service, is an operator service that allows people who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or have a speech disorder to place calls to standard telephone users via a keyboard or assistive device.

  3. Video relay service - Wikipedia

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    A video relay service (VRS), also sometimes known as a video interpreting service (VIS), is a video telecommunication service that allows deaf, hard-of-hearing, and speech-impaired (D-HOH-SI) individuals to communicate over video telephones and similar technologies with hearing people in real-time, via a sign language interpreter.

  4. Video remote interpreting - Wikipedia

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    VRI is distinct from Video Relay Service (VRS). Typically VRI is a contracted service used by organizations to help them communicate with Limited English Proficient or deaf and hard of hearing customers. VRS is principally a service provided to the deaf community, whereby a deaf person can contact the service, and use the interpreter to contact ...

  5. Telecommunications device for the deaf - Wikipedia

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    Caller A THANK YOU FOR USING TEXT RELAY SERVICE. GOODBYE Note: TTYs use only capital letters except when there are computer screens. Note: In the UK, Text relay service used to be called typetalk (RNID) but have since merged with the phone line using the dialling prefix 18001 (TTY) or the 18002 (voice relay). The emergency line is 18000 (TTY).

  6. Broadcast relay station - Wikipedia

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    NHK digital television, KRY, TYS and YAB transmitter in Iwakuni. A broadcast relay station, also known as a satellite station, relay transmitter, broadcast translator (U.S.), re-broadcaster (Canada), repeater (two-way radio) or complementary station (Mexico), is a broadcast transmitter which repeats (or transponds) the signal of a radio or television station to an area not covered by the ...

  7. Cable television relay service station - Wikipedia

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    In telecommunications, a cable television relay service station (CARS) is a fixed or mobile station used for the transmission of television and related audio signals, signals of standard and FM broadcast stations, signals of instructional television fixed stations, and cablecasting from the point of reception to a terminal point from which the signals are distributed to the public.

  8. Rediffusion - Wikipedia

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    Rediffusion was the trading name of Broadcast Relay Service Limited, founded in March 1928 for Joshua Powell [3] (9 May 1871 – October 1946). [4] In January 1929, the company introduced its first cable radio service in Hull to customers frustrated with the difficulties of tuning in weak radio broadcasts. In the customer premises, nothing more ...

  9. Assistive Technology for Deaf and Hard of Hearing - Wikipedia

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    Video relay service (VRS) or video remote interpreting (VRI) is a type of video telecommunication service, which use communication devices such as webcams or videophones to provide sign-language and/or spoken language interpretation services. In many cases, getting an interpreter may take some time and they may not be immediately available.