A telephone developed for use by people who are deaf or hard of hearing, having a small screen and a keyboard on which a message may be typed to be received by another textphone.
（供失聪或弱听者使用的）文本电话
Example sentencesExamples
The 13 special flats are equipped with flashing strobe lights, using different colours to alert people to the door, textphone or fire alarm.
A deaf person taps out their message on a textphone and the text is then read aloud by the operator to a hearing person.
The centre also hopes to recruit a team of four deaf or hearing-impaired women to work on the organisation's minicom textphone, which offers deaf and hearing-impaired women their first point of contact with the service.
Definition of textphone in US English:
textphone
nounˈtɛkstfoʊnˈtekstfōn
A telephone for use by hearing-impaired people, having a small screen on which a message can be received and a keyboard on which an outgoing message may be typed to another textphone.
（供失聪或弱听者使用的）文本电话
Example sentencesExamples
A deaf person taps out their message on a textphone and the text is then read aloud by the operator to a hearing person.
The 13 special flats are equipped with flashing strobe lights, using different colours to alert people to the door, textphone or fire alarm.
The centre also hopes to recruit a team of four deaf or hearing-impaired women to work on the organisation's minicom textphone, which offers deaf and hearing-impaired women their first point of contact with the service.