Glossary

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2-Line CapTel
2-Line CapTel is an optional way to use the CapTel 800 phone that is more convenient and transparent for you and your callers.
CapTel Phone
A special telephone designed to work with the captioning service to display captions during your telephone calls.
Captioned Telephone / CapTel
A telephone technology that allows people to receive word-for-word captions of their telephone conversations.
Captioning Service
The captioning service transcribes the caller's spoken words into written captions, using voice-recognition technology.
High Speed Internet
Refers to any kind of Internet connection that is not a standard dial-up connection.
Router
An electronic device that interconnects two or more computer networks, and selectively interchanges packets of data between them.
Speech recognition
Speech recognition(RT) is the translation of spoken words into text. It is also known as "automatic speech recognition", "ASR", "computer speech recognition", "speech to text", or just "STT".
Voice Recognition
Voice recognition refers to finding the identity of who is speaking, rather than what they are saying.
Voice to Text
Voice to text is the translation of spoken words into text.