30. The system of claim 24 wherein the relay further includes a speaker and a microphone, the step of generating a text message stream corresponding to the words spoken by the hearing person and received via the second communication link including presenting the spoken words by the hearing person to an ear of the call assistant via the speaker, receiving the spoken words revoiced by the call assistant via the microphone and using a processor trained to the voice of the call assistant to translate the revoiced words into the text message stream.
24. A system for providing captioned telephone service to an assisted user communicating with a hearing person, the system comprising: a relay for providing captioned text, the relay including a relay computer, a relay input device and a relay display screen; a captioned device that is linkable to at least first and second communication links, the captioned device comprising: a captioned device processor; a microphone; a speaker; a visually readable display in communication with the captioned device processor; an activation switch in communication with the captioned device processor and selectable by an assisted user to initiate a captioning service; the captioned device enabling the assisted user to use the captioned device to facilitate a telephonic communication via the first communication link between the user of the captioned device and a hearing person and facilitating a captioned call in which a text translation of words spoken by the hearing person is presented via the visually readable display, the captioned device configured to perform the steps of: (i) facilitating a voice telephone call on the first communication link between the captioned device and the hearing person during which voice communication occurs between the hearing person and the assisted user and during which words spoken by the hearing person are received by the processor via the first communication link; (ii) after the first communication link is established and while the voice telephone call is progressing, receiving an indication that the activation switch has been activated; (iii) after receiving the indication that the activation switch has been activated, passing the words spoken by the hearing person to the relay via the second communication link; (iv) receiving a text message corresponding to the words spoken by the hearing person from the relay; and (v) displaying the text message on the display within sight of the assisted user; wherein the words spoken by the hearing person and received by the processor during each of the telephone call and the captioned call are broadcast via the speaker substantially in real time as the words are received by the processor; the relay configured to perform the steps of: (i) generating a text message stream corresponding to the words spoken by the hearing person and received via the second communication link; (ii) displaying the text message stream on the relay display screen; (iii) receiving corrections to the text message stream entered by a call assistant using the relay input device to generate corrected text; and (iv) transmitting the corrected text to the captioned device.