[Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home

Wed Mar 22 17:05:00 UTC 2017

Hi, All,

I get my voice mail from my phone company also.  It comes with 
the unlimited long-distance I have.  Frankly, I was glad to 
getrid of in-the-house answering machines.

Evelyn

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From: Drew Hunthausen via Electronics-Talk 
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To: "'S L Johnson'" <SLJohnson25 at comcast.net>,"'Discussion of 
accessible home electronics and 
appliances'"<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 07:35:18 -0700
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home

I agree.  I have a phone that reads out the nunbers but that is 
about all.  In
terms of voice mail, all phone services have one that you can get 
as an
option where you can check your messages by calling a number.  
This takes the
need away from having to find one that talks.  Also I've found 
that they are
usually only a few dollars a month and my phone company actually 
included it
for free after talking to them about it and my situation.

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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 
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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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