{"id":1975,"date":"2013-08-06T12:34:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2013-08-06T12:34:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T16:34:41","slug":"wireless-captel-app-8613","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"Wireless CapTel App, 8\/6\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sprint to bring Call Captioning to iOS devices<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For some time, Sprint CapTel has offered telephones which will caption conversations in real-time.\u00a0 This would allow a user who is hard of hearing to listen as well as read the captioning of a conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Sprint CapTel is extending this service to iOS devices.\u00a0 The Wireless CapTel app, produced by Raketu Communications Inc., will allow a caller to initiate a call and listen as well as read the accompanying captions.\u00a0 This service requires registration, but will work on most modern iOS devices.\u00a0 A data connection is required, so presumably calls are placed using Voice Over IP, rather than conventional telephone switching.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/wireless-captel-by-sprint\/id574877036?mt=8\">The Wireless CapTel app<\/a> is available now via the Apple App Store. While it is free to download, registration likely requires Sprint service.<\/p>\n<div class=\"al2fb_like_button\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n(function(d, s, id) {\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1&appId=149587675112835\";\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));\n<\/script>\n<fb:like href=\"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/?p=1975\" layout=\"standard\" show_faces=\"true\" share=\"false\" width=\"450\" action=\"like\" font=\"arial\" colorscheme=\"light\" ref=\"AL2FB\"><\/fb:like><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sprint to bring Call Captioning to iOS devices Contributed by Joel Zimba, Special Projects Coordinator, MDTAP\u00a0 For some time, Sprint CapTel has offered telephones which will caption conversations in real-time.\u00a0 This would allow a user who is hard of hearing to listen as well as read the captioning of a conversation. Now, Sprint CapTel is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,27,19,31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1975"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1976,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975\/revisions\/1976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.equipmentlink.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}