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'''''Communications Assistant'''''  is a general term for person who voices text and types speech (IP Relay or TRS) or who interprets ASL conversation between callers (VRS). &quot;Communications Assistant” supersedes the term “TDD operator”. A communications assistant is an employee of the TRS (Telecommunications Relay Service) provider who transliterates conversation from text to voice and from voice to text between two end users of TRS.5.  

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'''''Qualified Interpreter'''''

An individual who interprets effectively, accurately, and impartially, both receptively and expressively, between American Sign Language and spoken English. [FCC 47 C.F.R. § 64.604 (a)(1)(iv)]

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'''APCO/NENA ANS 3.105.1-2015''', Minimum Training Standard for TTY/TDD Use in the Public Safety Communications Center
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