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From: Jack.O'keeffe@p0.f89.n129.z1.fidonet.org (Jack O'keeffe)
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Subject: Re: Illinois Relay Center
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Date: 19 Jul 90 04:44:00 GMT
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[This is from the Silent Talk Conference]

 AS> Are any of you familiar with what they call the "Voice Bridge"?
 AS> I've yet to try this out but will definitely make a point to this
 AS> this weekend now that I have some free time.  I'd like to hear
 AS> others' comments on this.

Be sure to let us know how that works out for you, Annie.  There was
an article in the January/February 1990 Shhh Journal about Dual Party
relay systems, and it mentioned the "Voice Carryover" feature or VCO.
It sounds just like the "VoiceBridge" you mentioned.  I believe it
said that your voiced reply goes directly to the other party, and
bypasses the relay operator.  (Nice for secrets, huh. :-)

We don't have much of a relay here at present, but a Statewide relay
has been approved by our Public fUtility Commission and is scheduled
to go online in September.  The contractor is AT&T, and I understand
it will have the VCO feature.  But it will still be intrastate, which
isn't good enough.  Think about folks like Wayne, living in New Jersey
and working in Philadelphia.  He couldn't even call home if the relay
is strictly intrastate.  Hopefully we can fix that with ADA.

... Jack.

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