34. The system of claim 31 wherein the captioned device is further programmed to perform the step of, upon receiving the indication that a captioning service should be invoked, initiating a connection over the second communication link.
31. A system for providing captioned services to an assisted user communicating with a hearing person, the system comprising: a 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 visual display in communication with the captioned device processor; a microphone; a speaker; an activator in communication with the caption device processor, the activator selectable by an assisted user to indicate that a captioned service should be invoked; the captioned device enabling a user to use the device to facilitate communications via the first communication link between the user and the hearing person and configured to perform the steps of: (i) receiving words spoken by the hearing person on the first communication link during a voice conversation between the assisted user and the hearing person and broadcasting the hearing person's words via the speaker upon reception; (ii) while receiving words spoken by a hearing person on the first communication link, receiving an indication via the activator on the captioned device that a captioning service should be invoked; (iii) upon receiving the indication that a captioning service should be invoked, providing the words spoken by the hearing person over the second communication link to the relay so that the relay can convert the words spoken by the hearing person into text; (iv) receiving text corresponding to the converted words transmitted from the relay; and (v) displaying the received text on a display within sight of the assisted user; the relay configured to perform the steps of: (i) generating a text message stream corresponding to the words spoken by the hearing person; (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.