u/masukomi

any way to make phone call without human intermediary?

I know there are services like IP-Relay which let you type and a human intermediary reads your text to the phone number you "called" and translates their speech into text for you. BUT are there any that don't involve a human? Like AI speech to text and text to speech? Preferably via computer because i suck at phone typing. I checked the r/deaf wiki but didn't see anything like what I'm looking for. I'm in the US if that matters.

I'm temporarily mute (jaw wired shut) and I need to update some medical account info and I really REALLY don't want to give all my account verification info to some random human intermediary.

My ASL is completely beginner level so an ASL interpreter wouldn't work for me. Plus it has the same problem.

-- Before anyone says it. Yes i technically can speak with jaw wired shut, but it's very hard to understand, not loud, and on top of that my autistic brain is essentially invoking selective mutism on me. It's a lot of mental work to even try to speak.

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u/masukomi — 2 days ago