Hi,
Yes, this can be done quite easily. Besides the usual movement of
numbers, one can forward ones landline to something like
https://www.didww.com/
though the costs might be difficult depending how much calling is done
and how the company that has the landline treats forwarding. You can,
however, turn forwarding on and off with this method where you can't
once you have brought your number to another provider.
Aman
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Sounds like we do need the splitter box I was talking about last week.
Still investigating.
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From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Aman Singer
Sent: 21 May 2015 01:59
To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [access-uk] Re: Telephone to PC with screen-reader
Hi Mike,
There are three options that I know of for this sort of thing.
First, there is the method of connecting your phone with a 3.5 MM
headphone jack/adapter to your PC. There are many of these around, I
use one which is designed for hearing aid users, which is not what
you're after, I daresay, but there are many others, mainly designed
for telephone recording and plugging headsets directly into the phone.
Obviously, once you have the phone plugged into your PC, there is
nothing simpler than splitting the output to two headsets and you can
speak into the phone or, if your phone/adapter permits it, plug a
microphone in and speak into that. I know of no way of using the same
headset, left and right, for this, but it might be possible with
something like virtual audio cable. The minor issue will be getting
the audio out of the phone and into your PC, not what happens after
that. The worst you can expect is having to use two headsets rather
than one.
The second option is to use a USB voice modem or a USB/PCIE FXO card.
These will allow you to get the sound into your computer and you can
then, again, split to multiple headsets, having the phone in one ear
and the screen reader in the other. I know USB FXO devices are
available, and I believe voice modems are also still available, though
I'm not sure how easy these are to get now.
Finally, you can simply have your landline number forwarded to the
VOIP application of your choice through a virtual DID number. Again,
this brings the sound into your PC's orbit and you can split it among
headsets. It might be more possible to use one headset in this
situation, restricting the VOIP application to one channel would
probably work, but I'm not sure about the screen reader.
I hope that's of some use.
Aman
On 5/20/15, Mike Ray <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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I can find nothing on the web about this.
It is common now to buy a telephone handset that plugs into a PC and
allows you to make voice over IP calls.
What I want to be able to do is connect my land-line phone to my PC, and
hear the screen-reader in one ear and the caller in the other, and have
them hear me via my headset microphone.
In this way my hands are free to type anything they tell me which I must
record and can read and speak to them such things as account numbers
from a text document etc.
Anybody know of any widget that will do that?
I am bored with balancing the phone on one shoulder and half-removing my
headset so I can hear the phone and still hear my screen-reader.
Mike
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