Telecoms for the deaf
Services developed by two UK organisations will help some hearing-impaired people to participate more fully in phone calls and meetings. Both products turn voice calls or meetings into text and are aimed at deaf people who prefer to speak.
A Bedfordshire company will soon start two new services using internet devices and voice recognition technology and the Royal National Institute for Deaf people (RNID) is launching the ScreenPhone.
The ScreenPhone costs just over £200 and uses the RNID's Typetalk service. The call is connected by a Typetalk operator so that the hard of hearing person is able to use their own voice but the other person's responses are typed and presented as text on the ScreenPhone's display.
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Mr father-in-laws life has been changed just by having SpinVox on his phone...it replaces his voicemail and it means when I call him he can read my messages and then text me back...its made a huge difference and he loves it. all we did was send a text - 'spinvox' - to 84004 and then it tells you how to set up...its about 25p per text but worth every penny...hope this helps
Posted by: charlotte | October 26, 2006 02:43 AM
Hi Charlotte,
Thanks for the tip. SpinVox is currently offering a free trial which might be of interest to other readers - see www.spinvox.com for more details.
Best wishes to you and your father-in-law!
Posted by: Rose | October 26, 2006 05:53 PM