43. 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 speaker; a microphone; a display within sight of the assisted user; an activation switch that can be selected by the assisted user to invoke a captioning service; and a device processor, each of the display and activation switch linked to the device processor, the device processor also linkable to first and second communication links, the captioned device enabling the assisted user to use the device to facilitate communications via the first communication link between the assisted user and the hearing person and configured to perform the steps of: (i) receiving words spoken by a hearing person on the first communication link and broadcasting the hearing person's words via the speaker upon reception; (ii) receiving words spoken by the assisted user via the microphone and transmitting the words received by the microphone via the first communication link to the device used by the hearing person; (iii) receiving an indication that the activation switch on the assisted user's captioned device has been activated; (iv) upon receiving the indication, providing the voice of 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 a text message stream; (v) receiving the text message stream from the relay over the second communication link; and (vi) displaying the received text on the display; the relay configured to perform the steps of: (i) transcribing the words spoken by the hearing person into a text message stream; (ii) displaying the text message stream on the relay display screen used by a call assistant; (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.
43. 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 speaker; a microphone; a display within sight of the assisted user; an activation switch that can be selected by the assisted user to invoke a captioning service; and a device processor, each of the display and activation switch linked to the device processor, the device processor also linkable to first and second communication links, the captioned device enabling the assisted user to use the device to facilitate communications via the first communication link between the assisted user and the hearing person and configured to perform the steps of: (i) receiving words spoken by a hearing person on the first communication link and broadcasting the hearing person's words via the speaker upon reception; (ii) receiving words spoken by the assisted user via the microphone and transmitting the words received by the microphone via the first communication link to the device used by the hearing person; (iii) receiving an indication that the activation switch on the assisted user's captioned device has been activated; (iv) upon receiving the indication, providing the voice of 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 a text message stream; (v) receiving the text message stream from the relay over the second communication link; and (vi) displaying the received text on the display; the relay configured to perform the steps of: (i) transcribing the words spoken by the hearing person into a text message stream; (ii) displaying the text message stream on the relay display screen used by a call assistant; (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. 46. The system of claim 43 wherein the step of receiving an indication occurs subsequent to broadcasting at least some of the words spoken by the hearing person via the speaker to the ear of the assisted user.