Relay for personal interpreter

A method of operating a relay system using a call assistant to facilitate communication between a hearing user and an assisted user by telephone comprising the steps of

• transmitting the voice of the hearing user when speaking to the ear of the call assistant;
• the call assistant speaking in voice the same words that the call assistant hears spoken by the hearing user into a microphone connected to a digital computer;
• the digital computer using voice recognition computer software trained to the voice of the call assistant to translate the words of the voice spoken by the call assistant into a digital text message stream containing the words spoken by the call assistant;
• transmitting both the digital text message stream and the voice of the hearing user by telephone connection to the assisted user;
• displaying the digital text message stream to a captioned telephone display device within sight of the assisted person;
• and
• broadcasting the voice of the hearing user to the assisted user;
• wherein the transmission of the voice of the hearing user through the relay is delayed by a time period which has the effect of making the text and the voice received by the assisted user closer to synchrony that would be the case without the delay.