Hi: I gave up on the land line a while ago and instead went for
sip/voip and a soft phone. I pay ~£3 per month to an outfit called
Tekara (other voip providers are available), which gives me a normal
phone number on which I can place and receive calls to other land
lines.
This allows me to speak/listen to callers on my PC headset at the same
time as listening to the screen reader, as required. I also find it
easier to dial numbers through my keyboard rather than a keypad. Phone
numbers can also be pasted from web sites etc. My soft phone
(Linphone) can record calls.
If you prefer a proprietary solution, a phone number can be bought
from Skype, but ISTR it was quite a lot more expensive.
On my TODO list is to develop a text widget and a bit of pulseaudio
plumbing to allow me to interactively read out text from the screen to
the phone.
Mobeen Iqbal writes:
hi mike.
hmm, a very interesting prospect! lets discuss this more via ventrilo
tomorrow. the only way i know of doing this is to use a modem to connect
directly to your landline, primitave but it could work. you could also
get a line in cable from amazon for a few quid. 1 end has a telephone
jack plug on it. the other end has a headphone line in plug on it. you'd
plug that in to your computer, then when someone rings and the listen to
this device function is enabled in the control panel in sound, it'd play
back the landline output over your speakers. the problem again is
getting the other person to hear your output which is difficult. you
could put the phone on the desk so it picks up your voice that way.
there are 3 more options. you could divert all calls to a sip software
program installed on your computer. in a nut shell, when someone rings
your landline it rings on your PC, you answer it and go from there.
that'd cost about 2 quid or so a month. option 2 is to use the hands
free function available on most telephones, panasonic are the best for
clarity and it works very well. option 3 is to buy a dect headset. these
headsets connect to a cordless phone system and fit in to 1 ear. when
someone rings your phone, just press the headset to answer and you're
in. probably the simplest option. all the above would cost you in some
way shape or form, depends if you want to pay and if so how much.
cheers,
Mo.
On 20/05/2015 22:37, Mike Ray wrote:
Hello folks,
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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