ING has spook software that will attempt to link you to your address and phone number. They called my parents’ house looking for me, and my mom gave me their number and I had to spend a few minutes on the phone telling them stuff to prove that I used to live in that house and explain why I am no longer at that address etc. This is not enough hassle that I would have turned down fifty bucks to avoid it, but it is more hassle than I expected.
That is bad, as it is another barrier to me accepting this offer—I don’t have any way to talk over the phone (obviously).
But I’m sure there’s software for it. Is there something that will let me communicate over a telephone by inputting words like I do on this forum? That is, I input the string I wish to communicate, and the software reads it through the phone connection. From what I know, such readers sound noticeably unlike humans, which will bother the bigots I plan to interact with.
Also, how feasible is it to use teletype when communicating with humans in cases where it must be done over a phone line?
ING has spook software that will attempt to link you to your address and phone number. They called my parents’ house looking for me, and my mom gave me their number and I had to spend a few minutes on the phone telling them stuff to prove that I used to live in that house and explain why I am no longer at that address etc. This is not enough hassle that I would have turned down fifty bucks to avoid it, but it is more hassle than I expected.
That is bad, as it is another barrier to me accepting this offer—I don’t have any way to talk over the phone (obviously).
But I’m sure there’s software for it. Is there something that will let me communicate over a telephone by inputting words like I do on this forum? That is, I input the string I wish to communicate, and the software reads it through the phone connection. From what I know, such readers sound noticeably unlike humans, which will bother the bigots I plan to interact with.
Also, how feasible is it to use teletype when communicating with humans in cases where it must be done over a phone line?
The easiest would probably be a TDD relay service.