WASHINGTON, March 17 -- Federal Communications Commission has issued a proposed rule called: Internet-Based Telecommunications Relay Service Modernization.

The proposed rule was published in the Federal Register on March 17 by Marlene Dortch, Secretary, Office of the Secretary.

Summary: The Federal Communications Commission (Commission) proposes to modernize its telecommunications relay services (TRS) rules and seeks comment on the use of automatic speech recognition (ASR) for speech-to-text conversion and advanced text-to-speech technologies for Internet Protocol (IP) Relay Service; the need for metrics for IP Relay quality; the compatibility of IP Relay with Real-Time Text (RTT) technology; adding captioning functionality to Video Relay...