Jolly Good Idea
Just What You Always Wanted!
Voice Dialler: 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!
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How to use voice dialler
Set up and installation
Price and how to buy
Customer feedback
Jolly Good Idea
Singles Cross
Blueberry Lane
Knockholt
Sevenoaks
TN14 7NH
Tel: +44 (0)20 8144 4559
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Voice Dialler
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!
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Setting
Up
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.
Price and how to buy
The dialler is just £110.00 including delivery.
However, customers linking from this site are eligible for a 10% discount, making the dialler just £99.00 - mention discount code INDL.
Please note; if the dialler is not for the use of a disabled person, entitled to obtain goods VAT free, VAT at 17.5% is payable on this amount.
Full, no-quibble, 30-day, money-back guarantee.
You can order on-line from the Jolly Good Idea website (it will open in a new browser window).
Customer feedback
I bought one of these for my father. He could never remember where he had put his address book, and then when he found it, he couldn't read what he'd written until he'd also found his glasses.
Now (as long as he can remember who he is trying to ring!) there is no problem.
For more information, you can email us or visit our website: www.jolly-good-idea.co.uk (it will open in a new window).
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