The conference proceedings contains 23 papers on telephone relay service, real-time captioning, and automatic speech recognition, and a glossary. The keynote address, by Representative Major R. Owens, examines current issues in federal legislation. Other papers have the following titles and authors: "Telephone Relay Service: Rationale and Overview" (Paul Taylor); "Overview of State-Regulated Relay Services" (Sheila Conlon-Mentkowski); "TDD Relay Services Across the United States" (David Baquis); "Recent Federal Activity Regarding Relay Service" (Karen Strauss); "The Process of Establishing State-Mandated Relay Services" (Michael Hurst); "Dual Party Relay Service: An Analysis of Funding Mechanisms" (Pamela Ransom); "California Relay Service" (Phyllis Shapiro); "Relay Service for Text Telephone Customers in Sweden" (Borje Nilsson); "Opening a World of Communications for Deaf People: Relay Service in Canada" (Robert Tolensky); "Nationwide TDD Relay Standards: Partners in Progess" (Paul Singleton); "Planning for Statewide Relay Services" (Joseph Heil, Jr.); "Captioning for Deaf People: An Historical Overview" (Malcolm Norwood); "Real-Time Captioning: The Current Technology" (Jeff Hutchins); "Real-Time Captioning: Training and Employment" (William Oliver); "Captioning as an Interpretive Medium" (William Cutler); "Real-Time Captioning in Education" (E. Ross Stuckless); "Automatic Speech Recognition: The Basics" (James Glenn); "Applying ASR to Communication between Deaf and Hearing People" (Judith Harkins); "Applications of Speech Recognition Technology in Rehabilitation" (Jared Bernstein); and "Automatic Speech Recognition of Impaired Speech" (Gloria Carlson and Jared Bernstein). (DB)