TTY

[lars63]

I'm finally getting a TTY so I can make phone calls, its going to be wonderful to be able to talk to people on the phone
http://www.abouttty.com/
I posted a link just in case any of you didn't know what a TTY was

[losCHUNK]

I'm the leader of this clan

[Transient]

lars is texting now.

[SoM]

yay

[lars63]

I am deaf so need to use TTY to make phone calls

[MKJ]

Good on you sir

[DooMer]

This guy has been posting here for 16 yrs and nobody knew he was deaf?

[seremtan]

on the internet, no one can hear you post

[lars63]

*LOL* I just never mentioned it I figured being old, well older than most of you here when I started posting was enough without adding that I was deaf. I guess I was just so pleased to finally get a TTY that I had to mention it to someone and you guys and girls were the some one so thanks for hearing me out or maybe I should say reading

[MKJ]

pretty sure you mentioned your hearing problems a few times. pretty sure tho.

[lars63]

I may have MKJ its been so long that I can't remember, another fault of old people

[Eraser]

I didn't know this, Lars!
Does it convert speech to text and vice versa? Or do you speak into the telephone yourself?

[obsidian]

Have you always been deaf?

[xer0s]

Our very own deaf person! How fun!

[Transient]

I didn't know this, Lars!
Does it convert speech to text and vice versa? Or do you speak into the telephone yourself?

He posted a link just in case any of us didn't know what a TTY was...

[xer0s]

lol, clicking links...

[YourGrandpa]

Who still has a land line in their home? With texting and the internet you'd think a TTY service would be obsolete.

[Whiskey 7]

lol, clicking links...

I must remember that.

Who still has a land line in their home? With texting and the internet you'd think a TTY service would be obsolete.

I still have a landline to support ADSL but soon they promise fibre to the home and just for you xer0s Clicky

Hey lars63, I was not aware of the hearing issue but all have failings or will have.

I am familiar with the TTY technology as years ago when I was a telecom technician (both before and after jail) and we had similar devices. When I was an amateur radio enthusiast we had (similar) tech where we typed on a Tandy TRS80 and transmitted text over HF radio. The PC converted the characters into Morse code before being transmitted. Anyone with the setup (or listening) could tune into a Morse conversation and decipher. It was pretty exciting stuff in those days.

[shaft]

TTYL

[Transient]

Who still has a land line in their home? With texting and the internet you'd think a TTY service would be obsolete.

When's the last time you texted your bank? Or any local stores, for that matter? I still get a busy signal every once in a while; call waiting still isn't ubiquitous, let alone making the leap to smartphones. Yes, some more forward-thinking businesses have internet storefronts which allow you to skip a step, but until everyone does it, some people will get left out. It's kinda like handicap ramps at store entrances.

[YourGrandpa]

Who still has a land line in their home? With texting and the internet you'd think a TTY service would be obsolete.

When's the last time you texted your bank? Or any local stores, for that matter? I still get a busy signal every once in a while; call waiting still isn't ubiquitous, let alone making the leap to smartphones. Yes, some more forward-thinking businesses have internet storefronts which allow you to skip a step, but until everyone does it, some people will get left out. It's kinda like handicap ramps at store entrances.

You can bank online and check a stores inventory/selection or shop online. You can do most of the things you need with a smart phone or PC. Anything you can't you'd have to go to the establishment anyway.

[lars63]

Have you always been deaf?

I worked 14 years in the shipyards around sandblasting, I was a painter down there and all the noise made me deaf, when my hearing got to bad that they were worried about my safety they let me go, after that I worked for FMC painting box cars until they found out how little I could then they let me go and after that I worked for a container outfit at the rail yards until I got hit by a truck that I didn't hear and after that I had to go on SS because my hearing got so bad that everyone had to write to me until I got hearing aids about six months ago, its wonderful to be able to talk to people again and actually hear sounds and now its the TTY life is good (smile)

[lars63]

Eraser, they are right I type to a TTY operator who then tells the person I'm talking to what I typed then the operator types to me what the person said in return

[Transient]

Does such a contraption exist that combines a hearing aid with a phone in a way that would allow you to hear people on the phone directly?

[losCHUNK]

Telecoil ?, they use them in shops in the UK for hearing assistance.

I've never seen them used but I think they work by transmitting a wireless signal from the phone to the hearing aid. Never seen them on mobiles, but then I wouldn't have reason to.