[FRIAM] Phone voice quality

[Prof David West]

check out consumer cellular. they have offered phones for the elderly (which you will be some day) optimized both visually (big buttons, backlit keys) and aurally. Don't know if they still do, but Mary's mother (98 this year and still using her phone) has one. Service areas suck.

davew


On Wed, May 6, 2020, at 12:03 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Phellow Phriammers,

> 

> Has anybody got a recommendation on a phone, wireless or other wise, that has really good voice quality. I find I am struggling to understand people when they talk to me over the phone, even though I am on a land line, usually. Land line to land line, within the city, seems much better, even when I am on a wireless receiver within the house. That would rule out line quality. A friend has told me that most cell phones have sacrificed intelligibility for other virtues, and the problem is almost surely with OTHER PEOPLE’S PHONES. In some cases it seems to have to do with the fact that cell phones are too short to allow a person to both hear well and be heard well. People instinctively maximize hearing well, and so the person on the other end is out of luck. 

> 

> Any thoughts on any of this? 

> 

> Nick

> 

> Nicholas Thompson

> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology

> Clark University

> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com

> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/

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