[Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home

Wed Mar 22 16:56:51 UTC 2017

We have panasonic cordless phones too,a few old sets from about 5 or 6 years 
ago, and we just bought a new set. I'm glad the caller i d talks but I too 
wish speech was included  for the menues  in the phone.

Arlene
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From: "randi sanfilippo via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "'S L Johnson'" <SLJohnson25 at comcast.net>; "'Discussion of accessible 
home electronics and appliances'" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
Cc: "randi sanfilippo" <r.sanfilippo at comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 9:45 AM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home

> Many of the telephones from Panasonic which have answering machines all of
> the feature of the answering machine talk also. You can look on Amazon and
> they describe all of the features. Randi
>
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> From: Electronics-Talk [mailto:electronics-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of S L Johnson via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 10:09 AM
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
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> Cc: S L Johnson <SLJohnson25 at comcast.net>
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home
>
> Hello:
>
> I wish someone did make a home phone that would do all those things.  The
> only phones for home I have seen with anything that talks are from
> Panasonic.  On those, the only thing that will talk is the caller ID.  The
> model I have is no longer made but I have seen that the newer models still
> are available with talking caller ID.Unfortunately not all the Panasonic
> cordless phones have that feature.  I had to go with a higher priced
> cordless Bluetooth model in order to get one that talked.  None of the 
> other
> features will talk.  My model came with an answering machine.  It cannot 
> be
> set by a blind person because those features do not talk.  I have been 
> doing
> an online search lately because my phones are starting to have problems.
> The only thing I have found that has any talking features is an AT&T
> answering machine for $29.95 sold by LS&S Group.  You might have to get 
> that
> and add a phone to it in order to serve your needs.  I have not found the
> sales people at Target or Wal-Mart to be of any help.  I think I will try
> Radio Shack or Best Buy so one of their sales people can at least show me
> the phones and they might know more about the talking features.  If I 
> manage
> to find something, I will let the list know.  The technology is out there 
> so
> it is too bad that somebody has not made a home phone that had more 
> features
> that would talk.
>
> Sandra Johnson
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sharon Klug via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 7:35 AM
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
> Cc: Sharon Klug
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home
>
> I'm talking about a home phone. Thanks for your information though.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 21, 2017, at 10:43 PM, Arlene via Electronics-Talk
>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
>>
>> Sharon, you might be thinking about the smart phones. If not the smart
>> phones, you might remember me writing about the 2 samsung cell phones
>> I have, both are feature phones, phones with buttons that have speech
>> included in the phones. Both phones speak all the menues, you can
>> write in all  your contacts, set up speed dial, use the calculator,
>> write text messages, write a shopping list, use the voice recorder
>> and more. The 2 phones are the samsung t-199, which is for t-mobile,
>> and the samsung gusto
>> 3 is for verizon. The t-199 is a bar type phone and it's a thin phone,
>> not thick at all. The buttons have that rubber sort of feeling, which
>> to me anyway, it's pleasant to the touch to my fingers when I'm
>> dialing a number, adding a contact or writing a text message. The
>> voice for the speech in the t-199'The sounds sort of like seri to me
>> or also the voice that does some of the different voice mail boxes on
>> the phones.  It costs About $20 at walmart. At the time when I
>> purchased it at t-mobile 3 years ago, it cost $30. It seems as if this
>> phone is getting harder to find, but as far as I know it's still
>> available. I noticed that amazon was selling it. It's such a good
>> little phone. I'll have to check with some of the different stores and
>> t-mobile to see if it's still being sold in the store. The t-199 I
>> have on a post paid account. gusto 3 is a flip phone and it's a nice
>> sized phone, with the buttons that feel smooth feeling. I like it as
>> well as I do the t-199. The gusto 3 voice is a very pleasant sounding
>> voice. There's one thing about it some people may not like about this
>> phone, that is when you open the phone or when you close it, it will
>> tell you the date and time. For me anyway, that's one of the very
>> manythings I like about the gusto 3. If you wanted to find out the
>> time on the t-199, it's easy to do, by going into the organizer and to
>> the world clock. You could even set up times for other cities. You
>> could buy the gusto 3 phone for $12.88 from walmart as a prepaid
>> verizon account, for unlimited calling it's $30 a month. All the other
>> stores that sell the gusto 3 such as target sell the gusto for $20.
>> Both these phones are inexpensive but I've had them for a lit over 3
>> years and they are still working well. In the gusto 3 you could set
>> the speed rate  of the speech on the phone, if you want to make a
>> little faster than the normal rate it talks at. I have some friends
>> that have post paid accounts on verizon so in that case the gusto 3
>> cost $90. If you'd like, I could give you a recorded sampling of both
>> phones. There's a few other phones I would like to look into. There's
>> the convoy 4 which is for verizon that one of my friends has, and the
>> Kyocera Dura XV  that someone on the verizon list told about.  I'm
>> hoping to see both of these phones sometime soon when my target store
>> gets them in. Another phone that had speech it it is the phone from
> assurance wireless that Sandra told us about, here on electronic talks.
>>
>> Arlene
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sharon Klug via Electronics-Talk"
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>> Cc: "Sharon Klug" <sharonklug9304 at gmail.com>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2017 9:40 PM
>> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home
>>
>>
>>> Hello list:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I remember some time back reading about a phone that talked the menus
>>> and had a phone book in it. You could input all the information and
>>> recall phone numbers.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Does anyone know any information about this phone?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks for reading and am looking forward to any information.
>>>
>>> Sharon
>>>
>>>
>>>
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