Software TTY

[Tachyon]

A while ago I'd found a whole bunch of different deaf relay numbers for various states and provinces, and was checking them out by taping a microphone and headphone earbud to my little TTY unit. Unfortunately the connection quality sucked and I later lost the TTY somehow (don't bring phreaking stuff with you drinking, regardless of how awesome it is). Anyway I had a great idea to make a software TTY unit (ASCII and Baudot) capable that could dial in via voIP to the TTY office of any state cheaply. This would be able to give you a greater range of operators to choose from and would eliminate the problems you occasionally get when they get snotty about dialing long distance for you.

[Klar]

That's actually a great idea! how successful have you been in designing this so far?

I've been using the AT&T Online relay and I tend to get the same two operators all the time: the 'angry black woman' (as a friend put it) and the shrill, chatty girl that says "he said ____, okay, blahblah.." and it would be REALLY great to...not get them anymore.