French: appareil de télécommunications pour sourds (ATS) A telecommunications device, similar to a portable computer with a small display screen, which enables people with a hearing and/or speech impairment to communicate via typed messages instead of with their ears or voice. TTY users can communicate with other TTY users, as well as non-TTY users, via Bell Relay Service (BRS). (See Bell Relay Service.)
This term refers to a means of sending data one character at a time. The TTY interface is often used by dumb terminals to communicate with mainframes....
Text-telephone used by deaf and hard of hearing people.
A text telephone system that allows a hearing-impaired user to type messages to another person and read responses on a small screen. Similar to today's text messaging, a "read only" conversation can exist between two people who each use TTY equipment. Otherwise, a non-hearing-impaired caller can use a relay service where a special operator acts as a go-between to translate the speaker's words into text and text print into voice communication.
Text-based device enabling people with a severe or profound hearing loss to communicate via the telephone line.
Teletext Device Typewriter
tty display the name of the terminal
A type of machine that allows people with hearing or speech disabilities to communicate over the phone using a keyboard and a viewing screen. Also known as TDD.
a phone device. Dialogue is achieved at any distance, as words are typed into a TTY, converted to phone signals and appear, or are printed, as words on a receiving TTY machine.
An electronic device that enables deaf and hard of hearing persons communicate with others over telephone lines. It consists of a keyboard, LED display, and acoustic couplers, and may have additional features.
print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input
(n.) Historically, teletypewriter equipment. Today, a TTY is any dumb terminal that can access a computer or workstation.
A type of machine that allows people with hearing or speech disabilities to communicate over the phone using a keyboard and a viewing screen. It is sometimes called a TDD.
See Teletypeand Teletypewriter.
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Text telephone writer which transcribes telephone messages received from people with hearing impairments.U Definition
Teletypewriter; equipment used to transmit and receive a typed record at relatively low speeds, generally from 60 to 100 words per minute.
See `text-only terminal.'
TeleTYpe writer (telecommunications device for the hearing impaired)
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The preferred term for a TDD by the Deaf community. This term originated with the Teletype Terminal, which was a loud mechanical printer with poor print quality used to transmit encoded text information over telephone lines.
Teletypewriter similar to TDD
Text Telephone Typewriter
a traditional term for telecommunication device for the deaf (Teletype).
An extremely plain TeleTYpe-style terminal. (Now rare.) See VT series.
An abbreviation for teletypewriter. Machinery or equipment that employs interactive text based communications through the transmission of coded signals across the standard telephone network. TTYs can include, for example, devices known as TDDs (telecommunication display devices or telecommunication devices for deaf persons) or computers with special modems. TTYs are also called text telephones.
(preferred term), or TDD (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf). These communication machines are also called "text telephones." They use interactive graphic (i.e. typed) communications through the transmission of coded signals across the standard telephone network. The TTY, or teletypewriter was the equipment first utilized by a deaf inventor as a communication tool for deaf people. See Appendix for TTY symbol.
Teletypewriter — a telecommunications device for the deaf
n. Acronym for teletypewriter. A device for low-speed communications over a telephone line, consisting of a keyboard that sends a character code for each keystroke and a printer that prints characters as their codes are received. The simplest video display interface behaves like a TTY. See also KSR terminal, teletype mode.
Special telephone numbers for the hearing impaired.
Unix command that prints to standard output the name of the file connected to standard input. The name of the program comes from teletypewriter, abbreviated "TTY".