Sprint Relay is accessible throughout North Dakota by dialing 711 or one of several toll-free numbers. Sprint Relay allows North Dakota citizens who have a speech disability to communicate with hearing persons on the phone through traditional relay services, a process that involves a relay operator serving as an intermediary for phone calls between a deaf user and a hearing party. The TRS operator speaks words typed by a deaf user on a text telephone (TTY) or via the Internet and relays the hearing person's spoken response by typing back to the deaf user.
Sprint Relay Online is also a free service that combines TRS with the ease and ubiquity of the Internet, allowing users to make calls from any PC or Web- enabled Internet device without having to use traditional TTY equipment.
Sprint Video Relay is also available for North Dakota residents and uses a similar process but enables the deaf user to communicate in American Sign Language with the relay operator via a computer equipped with a Web camera instead of typing. This allows for a much more natural sounding conversation with the hearing party.
