[Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home

Thu Mar 23 00:11:19 UTC 2017

I briefly had one where some features talked. i believe the model was C4220. 
i returned it because it would not generate long touch tones needed to open 
our complex front gate, and for accessing some automated phone systems.

Andy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "S L Johnson via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
To: "Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances" 
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Cc: "S L Johnson" <SLJohnson25 at comcast.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 4:07 PM
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home

> Hi,
>
> I have checked out the Clarity website.  Their phones are for the hearing 
> impaired with louder ringers and amplified handsets.  They have some with 
> large print screens.  They do not have them where all the features will 
> talk for someone who is totally blind.
>
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Andy Baracco via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 3:49 PM
> To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
> Cc: Andy Baracco
> Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] talking phone for home
>
> Clarity makes landline phones for people with hearing and visual
> disabilities. If you live in California you can get these phones for free
> through a special state run program. I do not have a web site for Clarity,
> but you can find them through a Google search.
>
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sharon Klug via Electronics-Talk" <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
> To: "Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances"
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> Cc: "Sharon Klug" <sharonklug9304 at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2017 4:35 AM
> 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" 
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> To: "'Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances'" 
>>> <electronics-talk at nfbnet.org>
>>> 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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