If you have a speech disability and live in the USA. you can now use a free telephone relay service, available 24 hours a day. This service is similar to the TDD service available to the hearing disabled except that it doesn't’ require typing.

This service, called Speech-to-Speech (STS), provides communication assistants (CA's) for people with difficulty being understood by the public on the telephone. It is available for business, medical, and personal communication.

STS is available in all 50 states, plus the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Australia, New Zealand Sweden. STS is easy to use and available from every phone and does not require registering to use. 

Just pick up the phone and dial 711 and request a Speech-to-Speech Operator. Your family, friends and business acquaintances can call you and use the STS services just as easily.  There are both training videos and a list of the Speech-to-Speech numbers for you to view.  Just click on the links listed to your left.

This web site is maintained by Speech Communication Assistance by Telephone, Inc (SCT).  We are a nonprofit organization (501c3) dedicated to helping people with speech disabilities learn to use the telephone with the assistance of Speech-to-Speech.

Continued to educate the public on STS service . Only about 5% of potential users know about the services and benefits of STS, including presentations with local disability support groups.

Proposed an extensive outreach program in California—to begin July 2010.

Completed a major portion of a Pilot STS Multi-State Outreach Project . ($25,000 Grant)

Represented people with speech disabilities on the Interstate Telephone Relay Service “Fund” Advisory Council.

Lobbied the FCC to publish the upcoming STS Internet Protocol Regulations.

Laid the Ground work for the research and trial of Video Assisted STS.

Became an affiliate of Sacramento United Way to increase our fundraising efforts. 

Continued to provide a national SCT office in Sacramento and an East-Coast affiliate in Baltimore MD.

Continued to work with Sacramento Friends Meeting STS to develop Quakers’ interest and support.

Continue to lobby the FCC for publication of new STS Internet Protocol

Regulations and updated STS regulations. 

Represent people with speech disabilities on the Interstate Telephone Relay Service “Fund” Advisory Council.

Schedule and complete a feasibility study and conduct trial of Video Assisted STS.

Complete the work on relay provider grants (contracted for $55,000).

Continue to promote sales of: Against the Current: My life with Cerebral Palsy.
 All profits go to SCT.

Continue to work with STS support groups, including the Quakers’ and the Sacramento Friends Meeting STS Interest Group