Just What You Always Wanted!
A range of ingenious products to make life easier for anyone who struggles with day-to-day communication.
Jolly Good Idea
7 Brook Lane
Plaxtol
Sevenoaks
TN15 0RF
Tel: +44 (0)20 8144 4559
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This has to be the best way of making
a telephone call from a land-line!
Simply pick up the receiver and tell the phone who you want to speak
to - the voice dialler does the rest!
Nothing
could be simpler than making a phone-call with the Voice Dialler:
You want to phone someone.
You lift the receiver.
You reply to the voice query "name to dial, please" with the
person's name.
The number rings!
The dialler plugs between your phones and the BT wall socket (all cables
supplied). You do need to tell it the names of your contacts (up to 60
of them) and their telephone numbers by following the voice prompts before
you can ring them, but then the dialler can work with all the phones in
the house.
If you want to dial a number normally, press any of the number keys (or
*) when you hear the voice prompt. You will hear your normal dial tone,
and you can dial using the telephone keypad, as usual.
To access the main menu of options (to add or delete names, or to hear
the names in memory), press # after you have heard the voice prompt.
The voice recognition is very robust, and normally has no problems in
recognising the names you have given it, even on other telephones in the
house or spoken by other people, although the voice recognition is ostensibly
speaker dependent!
You can find more information and buy online on our website:
www.jolly-good-idea.co.uk (it will open in a new window).
The best place for your dialler is close to where your main BT wall
box is located: then all phones in the house can benefit from voice dialling
- however, as the unit is powered, the dialler also requires an electrical
socket quite near (within about 6 feet), so if necessary you can locate
it elsewhere and even just on a specific phone.
To put in your numbers, go to the dialler main menu. If no names have
been stored, just lift the receiver, otherwise lift the receiver and press
#.
Simply follow the voice prompts. If you have difficulty reading, remembering
or dialling, this is where some assistance can be useful, but you must
be the person to speak the names.
You can put up to 35 digits in for each number, useful for international
numbers.
If, for any reason, power to the dialler is lost, the names and numbers
are retained until power is restored. While the dialler is unpowered,
you get a normal dial-tone when you pick up the receiver - i.e. there
is no loss of your telephone service.
You can find more information and buy online on our website:
www.jolly-good-idea.co.uk (it will open in a new window).
This is the most amazing voice controlled device you will ever encounter.
It has all the functionality you would expect from a PDA but you never need to read or write anything.
Apart from the volume control, it has one button to push. All the rest, you do entirely by voice.
This feature-rich device is powered by a very strong Lithium-Ion based battery that can be fully charged
in less than four hours and can supply more then 10 working hours and more than 11 months(!) in standby mode
between each charging cycle.
TapMemo includes an earphone jack, a charging jack and a belt clip on its rear. The unit is also equipped
with a hidden reset button in case the user needs to perform a soft or hard reset.
On the next page, you can read the main features of TapMemo.
You can find more information and buy online on our website:
www.jolly-good-idea.co.uk (it will open in a new window).
• Memo Pad - can contain up to 30 memos, each up to one minute long. Each memo is given a name and then can be called
upon simply by saying its name. User is able to hear all memos played back and scroll back and forth. User can delete a single
memo or all memos.
• Phone Book - can contain up to 60 entries. Each entry can store one phone number of up to 48 digits and seven seconds
voice recording of additional data such as an address, etc. The user can command the unit to dial a certain number. By placing
the unit near a telephone handset, the unit will emit DTMF tones corresponding to the number and the phone will dial them -
no buttons pressed. User is able to hear all names played back and scroll back and forth. User can delete a single name or all names.
• Calendar - can contain up to 30 appointments, each having a reminder. Each appointment is given a name and seven
seconds voice recording of additional data. User is able to hear all appointments played back chronologically and scroll
back and forth. User can delete a single appointment or all appointments.
• Alarm Clock - a 24 cycle alarm clock is included which features a progressive wake up mechanism that will increase
the volume gradually.
• Locking command - enables the user to lock the unit against unwanted use and protect personal data stored on it.
• Unit locator - if you misplace the unit, just whistle, and TapMemo will respond with a short, high volume phrase
that will enable you to find it again.
• Talking time and date - two separate commands.
• Battery level reading with a low level warning.
• Available memory reading.
You can find more information and buy online on our website:
www.jolly-good-idea.co.uk (it will open in a new window).
Voice Dialler
The dialler is just £120.00 including delivery.
Please note; if the dialler is not for the use of a disabled person,
entitled to obtain goods VAT free, VAT at 20% is payable on this amount.
Full, no-quibble, 30-day, money-back guarantee.
TapMemo
TapMemo costs just £105.00 including delivery.
Please note; if the TapMemo is not for the use of a disabled person,
entitled to obtain goods VAT free, VAT at 20% is payable on this amount.
RF Transmitter
The transmitter costs £8.80 including VAT plus £1.20 delivery.
You can buy all the products securely online on our website:
www.jolly-good-idea.co.uk (it will open in a new window).
This was originally designed to enable an MP3 player to be played in the car. The stereo plug is plugged into the headset
socket of the MP3 player, and the car radio is tuned into the frequency that the device transmits on.
It occurred to me that this could be used for people who are becoming hard of hearing to allow them to listen to their
televisions without having to have the volume so high that it becomes a nuisance to other in the house.
What you do is: plug the transmitter into the headphones socket of your TV (this may be hidden under a flap below the screen),
switch it on, select one of the four frequencies. Now tune in a portable radio to that frequency, and put it close to where you
are sitting. You now have your own private speaker which you can adjust to your preferred volume, and place as close to your ear
as you like!
You can also use the transmitter to "Listen Again" to the BBC. This time, plug it into the headset socket of your
computer, and start playing the radio program you missed. Tune your radio in to the transmitter, and now you don't need to be
anywhere near your computer!
You can find more information and buy online on our website:
www.jolly-good-idea.co.uk (it will open in a new window).
