[Slightly OT] - is there telephone s/w out there

Or just a dect headset - something like

Darren

Then a DECT phone that takes a headset, as suggested by Clive George.

Incidentally, I tried the voice functions on a USR voice modem (years ago, when 56Flex or whatever was The Latest Thing...) - horrible, truly horrible.

Owain

========================================= I *think* Cheyenne Bitware might be a starting point. It came bundled with many Voice/Fax/Data modems and although it isn't actually free it was so widely available that you should be able to get a discard from somebody.

Cic.

IIRC there are cordless phones which take a headset.

Found it - but it appears to be for Win95 only.

You might strap a headband to it as a temporary measure, then you can take your time getting just what you want

NT

Best bet is a bluetooth enabled DECT phone and a suitable headset.

Siemens and BT both do such phones, though the BT ( Glide ) isn't apparently up to much. Not worth bothering with a DECT phone and a wired headset - it's a complete nuisance

As it happens I bought a Glide off ebay t'other day with the intention of using it with a headset. Should turn up tomorrow - I'll report back.

Regards,

Why?

Because you have a flying lead hanging down and it gets in the way. They also use a 'triple contact' jack plug/socket, and I've found them to be very unreliable over time.

Regards,

With no background noise

And then you fly out of the window in your spiderman suit...

:-)

My DECT cordless has a jack socket on the side, and I can plug a bog standard plantronics headset into it. That would seem to meet your requirements.

Something like:

Sounds easy enough to achieve without involving the computer...

You can get also DECT wireless headsets that include the phone "lifter" interface in the base:

Failing any of those - for a nice low tech solution get a towelling headband, and use it to strap your DECT phone to the side of your head!

Well you can talk but can the person at the other end make out what you are saying after two lots of lossy digital compression? I doubt very much yer ordinary Blue Tooth ear plug uses the same compression as DECT so either has to go back to analogue in the DECT handset be transcoded. The former is most likley IMHO.

Having two RF paths seems a bit daft. Can't you get a wired phone with Blue Tooth? Or of course as has been mentioned a DECT with wired headset.

Judging by the number of people that use nothing but a mobile (GSM or DECT) I guess it must be just me who gets annoyed at the delay and/or poor speech quality they all exhibit. Wired if at all possible for me.

I vaguely remember that from the dim distant 3.1 / 95 days

I'll look around for a recent version

cheers - that's the sort of thing I'm looking for

I installed the Voice / fax) modem today, the installation CD doesn't work with my motherboard (or so it says, but it seems to have "self installed" the drivers automatically

now all I need is the dialler / control softward

find a wireless headset

as I said before

In message , Dave Liquorice writes

I actually have one somewhere up in the loft, however, I don't see why it should be any better than the voice / fax modem card I out in today

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)" writes

The find one ...

not a problem with a mobile, but a landline phone ?

Then why does mine say "voice / fax" ?

Why ?

All I'm looking for is the best (free if possible) propriety program to link the two

In message , Tim Lamb writes

Old pcs and OS's I have a plenty

find the DECT wireless headset for me

In message , dmc writes

At last - yes that has potential I'll look into that one

Quite a bit cheaper than what I've seen in the past