hi. yes, you can with voipfone if you're with BT.
cheers,
Mo.
On 21/05/2015 13:10, Steve Nutt wrote:
Hi Les,
Can you transfer a landline number though to a soft phone? For example, if
you have an existing landline number, can you transfer it? Some may not
want to lose their phone number.
All the best
Steve
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Subject: [access-uk] Re: Telephone to PC with screen-reader
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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