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From: lws@comm.wang.com (Lyle Seaman)
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Subject: Re: New Phone Surmounts Barrier For the Deaf
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Date: 20 Mar 90 22:39:09 GMT
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telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (John Lockard) writes:

>     A prompter directs the sending party to type a message on the
>phone's dialing keypad.  The deaf person receives the message on the
>computer's screen and may then type a responce or send a prepared
>message, which reaches the receiving party as a synthesized voice.
     
>This caught me by suprise.  It seems that very few words, English or
>otherwise, would have the same sequnce of numbers.  (I'm assuming that
>they use 1 for Q, 0 for Z, * for a period, and # as a space.)

Well, maybe they use 77 for Q, 9999 for Z, 1 for space, * for period,
and # for end of letter.

44#33#555#555#666#15#666#44#66#1555#999#555#33#144#33#77#33#*
HELLO JOHN LYLE HERE 
 
A lot of typing but workable.  If you wanted to call someone 
deaf regularly, you might use one of these credit card sized
dialers with a bunch of standard strings keyed in...


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