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How do you get to have your own voice mail? How can a relay translate a voice mail for you?

If someone calls you and leave you a message? What is another way you could listen to it?
 
Ask a hearing friend to do it for you - I have had an interpreter of mine to do it for me such as I said 'You have reached Jacob's cellphone, I'm deaf, SMS me instead. Thank you'
 
I listen to it but if I missed it that I can't understand I called ip and they tell me what my voicemail said lol
 
ClearSky said:
How do you get to have your own voice mail? How can a relay translate a voice mail for you?

If someone calls you and leave you a message? What is another way you could listen to it?
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call VRS to pick up vm
 
What's SMS? I am trying to do this independently and not rely on someone to take messages for me.

I knew that relay could listen to your voice mail, but the main phone with the voice mail is a cordless phone. I can't use it to place it on my tty. I can't have another phone (doesn't have voice mail) in the same area as the main phone because there isn't an extra telephone plug to plug another phone to try to listen to the voice mail using tty relay.

I once had a phone with a voice mail, and the voicemail would not play while the phone was in use (while I used my tty).

I have to find out if the main cordless phone can be used to have a code set up to be punched in from another phone to listen to voice mail outside of home. I think it doesn't have that like the previous phone did. This phone voice mail is not good. It's hard for anyone to hear easily.
 
Well, it is such as so called 'Text messaging'
 
Have you had success using this for when you look for a job?

I don't know how people who don't know about my deafness might take texting seriously.

I might just have to get another phone with the ability to set up a code that the relay can use to listen to the messages. Plus one with a good quality voice mail. I'll look for the instructions to see if that phone has a voice mail set up code.

I don't know if employers or some other people might take texting messages seriously. They might just think "WTF?" lol Not that I use the phone to call back employers, but I'd like to know word for word what the voice mail says.
 
Correction: SMS = Short Message Service.

MMS is Multimedia Message Service.
 
damn, you're right. GP - thanks for the correction :)
 
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