Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Relay ID

There's a new product from Sprint designed to make it easier to use your phone, if you have difficulty hearing. The Relay ID is available on some Android smartphones. The "bundle" includes voice mail transcripts, visual and vibrating alerts and readable captions, and other items, which can be downloaded together. Here's the list:

Sprint Mobile Video Relay Services – video relay services for sign language users
Calendar Notifier – for providing visual alerts and repeating reminders of calendar events
Handcent SMS – visual alerts and notifications of texts
VideoPlayer – captions on videos downloaded to an SD card
Gmail Notifier – visual and vibrating alerts and reminders for Gmail
TuneWiki – which reads the lyrics to songs
Captionfish.com – captioned movies playing in a customer’s area
AIM Instant Messenger – access telephone relay services through AIM Buddy “SprintIP”
Google Voice – transcribe audio messages left on voice mail into text