IWRelay: First to Deliver Deaf Mobile Video Relay Calling

July 16, 2010 - PRLog -- Salt Lake City, Utah – Released this Friday, the IWRelay VRS iPhone application allows Deaf users to make mobile phone calls to hearing friends and family members for the first time ever.

The IWRelay VRS application connects a Deaf or hearing-impaired iPhone 4 user, a hearing person with any type of telephone, and a video relay interpreter. Using real-time video, the Deaf caller communicates through sign language. The video relay interpreter uses video and spoken word to translate between the other two parties.

Highly anticipated by the Deaf community, IWRelay has already amassed a substantial social media following with over 10,000 Facebook fans.

“This is a life changer for us,” says Deaf IWRelay user Jim Harper. “Now we can use our phones for more than just texting.  Video calls are so much faster.  It’s just a better way to communicate.”

As a provider for the FCC’s Video Relay Service, IWRelay is able to provide this application at no cost to Deaf users.

“We are proud to serve our customers by providing the nation’s first truly mobile video relay service,” says IWRelay President Jeff Born. “We work with the highest-rated interpreters in the industry to offer the Deaf community an innovative, easy way to communicate with anyone from just about anywhere in the world.”

For more information about IWRelay and their services, visit http://www.iwrelay.com.