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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 22:08:59 -0500
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- From: Seth Gordon <sethg@SILVER.LCS.MIT.EDU>
- Subject: TTY noise?
- In-Reply-To: Chris Prince's message of Thu,
- 21 Jan 1993 16:52:01 GMT <9301211802.AA01728@silver.lcs.mit.edu>
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- Most TTY's that I've used have "acoustic couplers"--you put the phone
- handset in those little rubber cups, and when you type, a speaker in
- the TTY makes noise, so that the microphone in the telephone handset
- can pick it up. If the connection between the cups and the handset
- isn't *very* tight, hearing people nearby will be able to hear the
- noise.
-
- It's a crude system, but it's guaranteed to work with any phone, even
- in houses with ooooooold wiring systems, or pay phones where you can't
- plug your TTY into the wires.
-
- Some TTY's connect directly into the telephone wiring. In my
- experience, these TTY's don't make any auditory noise--they don't have
- to.
-
- Once upon a time, many ASCII modems had acoustic couplers, and their
- hearing users could hear the screeeeeeeeech of the carrier tone as
- they worked. You don't see many of these modems around anymore.
- --
- I wish I could speak for my boss, but I'm not a Sign Language Interpreter.
- seth gordon ... <sethg@silver.lcs.mit.edu> ... learning ctr 4 deaf children
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