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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

I'm the leader of this clan

lars is texting now.

yay

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

Good on you sir

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

on the internet, no one can hear you post

*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

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

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

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

Have you always been deaf?

Our very own deaf person! How fun!

Eraser wrote: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...

lol, clicking links...

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

xer0s wrote:lol, clicking links...

I must remember that.

YourGrandpa wrote: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.

TTYL

YourGrandpa wrote: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.

Transient wrote:

YourGrandpa wrote: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.

obsidian wrote: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)

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

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?

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.