A method for providing communication services for communications between a
hearing-impaired party and a hearing party includes establishing a voice
link with the hearing party. The method also includes receiving a voice
message from the hearing party via the voice link and generating a text
message corresponding to the voice message using voice recognition. The
method may also include transmitting the text message to the
hearing-impaired party. Optionally, a high speed text input device may
also be used with, or instead of, the voice recognition to generate the
text message.