Captioning Videophone Features Survey

The dialer lets you enter and dial a phone number using BIG buttons.

The dialer lets you enter and dial a phone number using BIG buttons. Speed Dials are large ONE-TOUCH buttons, displaying the NAME and optionally FACE of each contact. Each button can call up to 5 numbers, either with video, or a regular call.

Face-to-face conversation with family and friends who are using Skype on a mobile, tablet or PC. You can read lips, interpret facial expressions and use sign language to aid comprehension.

Turn on lights in other rooms during ringing so you don't miss calls. Konnekt supplies, sets up and manages Smart Plugs or Smart Globes.

Vibrate a pocket device during ringing so you don't miss calls. Konnekt supplies, sets up and manages pocket device.

Although our hands-free Videophone works without one, a handset or headset is an alternative to suit your needs.

Call-alert (ringing) volume and speaker volume can BOTH be adjusted, and are SEPARATE adjustments so that (for example) you can have very loud ringing but moderately loud speaking volume (for large homes) or vice-versa (for smaller homes).

Different ringing sounds, with different frequencies (tones), to suit those with better hearing at a higher, lower or medium pitch.

Incoming calls from nominated (trusted) callers are answered automatically if the user does not (or cannot) answer or decline the call.

User can add, edit or remove contact information.

The Call History lists calls made, answered or missed by the user. The user is notified of incoming calls that were missed in his/her absence.

The captions of your previous calls are available for you to browse in your Call History.

If an incoming call is not answered or declined, the caller can leave a voice message. Messages are converted to text and can be reviewed.

Service in which Konnekt can make changes for the user, remotely.

The user can access all settings from the touchscreen. This process may be complicated but is flexible.

You, or a trusted family member, can access and modify settings REMOTELY via a web page.

This is the Internet version of captioning. The operator calls both you and the B-party. With this proposed feature, there would be no need for the user to open a browser or cope with complicated web pages or forms. The user would select the contact or enter the phone number, and the rest would be automatic. Ideal if you have contacts whose voices are not well understood by automated captioning but are understood by human-operator captioning.

User types text, using an optional external keyboard, rather than speaking. The user's typed text is converted to speech for the other person to listen to. With this proposed feature, there would be no need to open a browser or cope with complicated web pages or forms. The user would select the contact or enter the phone number, and the rest would be automatic. Ideal for those with a severe speech impairment who can type.

For those who cannot reach or cannot operate the touchscreen: A big button sits beside your bed or chair, or is worn. Press the button to call up to 5 contacts, or to answer a call, without using the touchscreen. This feature is ideal for mobility limitations, bed-ridden or chair-bound users, or those who are more likely to fall.

Tone controls would allow adjustment of treble and bass, for example to compensate for aged-related hearing loss.

An equalizer would have a number of controls for different frequencies (pitches), that could be set according to an audiograph report for more accurate but more elaborate compensation compared to simple tone controls.

Have we left anything out of this survey? Other features you'd like? Do you have any ideas? Questions? Feedback about this survey?

Please describe your speaking ability? How easily can you make yourself understood? Do you prefer to use a keyboard to type, rather than a telephone / microphone?

Please describe the devices you currently use to communicate? Telephones? Mobile phones? Captioning phones? Tablets? Other?

Have we left anything out of this survey? Other features you'd like? Do you have any ideas? Questions? Feedback about this survey?