RoseRodent
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I will try to be brief with my background info:
I have tried loads and loads of landline telephones but never had one I can hear, when they turn up the volume they always turn up the distortion right along with it, I hear nothing of use.
My mobile I can finally hear if I plug a direct input lead into a bluetooth adaptor, but like anything else bluetooth I have ever owned it has a terrible habit of dropping out the connection between calls or if you don't use it for a while, plus I need to have other things plugged into my DAI over the course of a day too. I currently answer my mobile only to people I know well and I put the speakerphone on and hold it up to my hearing aid but that's not really working for me any more (not loud enough) plus in public I get funny looks and can't have a private conversation. I didn't think it was that loud till my husband informed me he could hear the person on my phone when he was in another room with the door shut between us and he was watching TV and he heard every word. Ooops!
Solutions like Skype are great if the person you want to call also has Skype, but for business calls it's just not catching on.
I am trying to find a solution that leaves me free to answer my phone at any time, I can make calls or receive pre-planned calls from friends where we arrange that I will be wired into the phone, but I can't deal with a call that I'm not expecting to get.
I have little joy with text relay, it's mind-numbingly slow and they always want to change operators half way through my calls, they want everything repeated over and over... not sure I want to re-invest in the technology for the landline since I get so many free bundled calls on my mobile contract which I'd have to pay for again via the landline, so I don't have a textphone/TTY at all any more.
Most people in the UK don't actually know what relay is, they just remember from somewhere that if they say "Typetalk" that should make all their problems go away, so they tell me to phone with Typetalk and don't understand that means I need equipment that I do not have! And that's before you get to all the websites that only allow you to input 10 digit phone numbers that start with a zero as all other numbers are "not valid" or the people who won't phone the number cos they don't recognise it.
If we had Captel in this country I'd love to try that, but we don't have it yet. Nearest we have is Screenphone (VCO with relay) which I tried out but I sent it back as I didn't like it.
I don't think my hearing aids are compatible with any streamer devices either. If they are then my audiology is unlikely to be prepared to set them up, and you aren't allowed to go elsewhere.
Can anyone think of a solution I haven't come up with yet? I just need an incoming call to arrive with me loud and clear enough to answer it, at least enough to get the general gist of who is calling and why so I can tell them to contact me another way. Getting tired of people who think that anyone who will only do business by email is automatically a scam and all the "we didn't deliver your package cos you didn't answer your phone" stuff.
I have tried loads and loads of landline telephones but never had one I can hear, when they turn up the volume they always turn up the distortion right along with it, I hear nothing of use.
My mobile I can finally hear if I plug a direct input lead into a bluetooth adaptor, but like anything else bluetooth I have ever owned it has a terrible habit of dropping out the connection between calls or if you don't use it for a while, plus I need to have other things plugged into my DAI over the course of a day too. I currently answer my mobile only to people I know well and I put the speakerphone on and hold it up to my hearing aid but that's not really working for me any more (not loud enough) plus in public I get funny looks and can't have a private conversation. I didn't think it was that loud till my husband informed me he could hear the person on my phone when he was in another room with the door shut between us and he was watching TV and he heard every word. Ooops!
Solutions like Skype are great if the person you want to call also has Skype, but for business calls it's just not catching on.
I am trying to find a solution that leaves me free to answer my phone at any time, I can make calls or receive pre-planned calls from friends where we arrange that I will be wired into the phone, but I can't deal with a call that I'm not expecting to get.
I have little joy with text relay, it's mind-numbingly slow and they always want to change operators half way through my calls, they want everything repeated over and over... not sure I want to re-invest in the technology for the landline since I get so many free bundled calls on my mobile contract which I'd have to pay for again via the landline, so I don't have a textphone/TTY at all any more.
Most people in the UK don't actually know what relay is, they just remember from somewhere that if they say "Typetalk" that should make all their problems go away, so they tell me to phone with Typetalk and don't understand that means I need equipment that I do not have! And that's before you get to all the websites that only allow you to input 10 digit phone numbers that start with a zero as all other numbers are "not valid" or the people who won't phone the number cos they don't recognise it.
If we had Captel in this country I'd love to try that, but we don't have it yet. Nearest we have is Screenphone (VCO with relay) which I tried out but I sent it back as I didn't like it.
I don't think my hearing aids are compatible with any streamer devices either. If they are then my audiology is unlikely to be prepared to set them up, and you aren't allowed to go elsewhere.
Can anyone think of a solution I haven't come up with yet? I just need an incoming call to arrive with me loud and clear enough to answer it, at least enough to get the general gist of who is calling and why so I can tell them to contact me another way. Getting tired of people who think that anyone who will only do business by email is automatically a scam and all the "we didn't deliver your package cos you didn't answer your phone" stuff.
