Apparatus and method for providing enhanced telephonic communications

A method comprising:

• determining, by a processing system including a processor, a presence of a first communication device within a vicinity of a local device, wherein a textual transcription of a voice call between the first communication device and a second communication device is presented at a first display device;
• receiving a request for the textual transcription from the local device;
• and
• in response to the request and in accordance with the determining, initiating presentation of the textual transcription of the voice call at a second display device communicatively coupled to the local device.

A non-transitory machine-readable medium comprising executable instructions that, when executed by a processing system including a processor, facilitate performance of operations comprising:

• transcribing an audio portion of a voice call between a first communication device and a second communication device to obtain a textual transcription of the voice call;
• determining a presence of the first communication device within a vicinity of a local device, wherein the textual transcription is presented at a first display device;
• and
• in response to the determining, initiating presentation of the textual transcription of the voice call at a second display device communicatively coupled to the local device.