[OFF] Re: Telephone answering script
[OFF] Re: Telephone answering script
- Subject: [OFF] Re: Telephone answering script
- From: Jeff Ganyard <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 22:46:48 -0700
At 10:48 PM -0500 6/6/01, JollyRoger wrote:
On 6/6/2001 8:20 PM, "Claude Freaner" <email@hidden> wrote:
I'm looking for some help for my son - he is looking for an
application or utility that will allow his iMac to act like a
telephone answering machine: answer incoming calls, play a recorded
message, record the voicemail message from the caller, then hang up.
Does anyone know of an apple script that will do this function?
No, but I used to use an application called MegaPhone to do just that, and
it may have been scriptable. As I recall, MegaPhone was weird in that it
didn't let you use standard file formats for sounds, which made re-recording
and changing recorded messages quite painful. But it was the only real
solution at the time, so I used it.
There's also an application I believe was named PhonePro that allowed you to
program your own interactive voice mail system. My dad ended up buying it,
and from what I saw, it was better than MegaPhone because it was more
flexible. One catch with PhonePro, as I recall, was that the modem you used
with it had to support certain functions in order for the more advanced
features of voice mail to work.
Both were neat applications. Maybe they are still around...
JR
Megaphone and Phone Pro were both from a company called Cypress
Research, and Megaphone was/is scriptable. Phone Pro was/is actually
a development environment specifically for building voicemail
applications. Pretty cool stuff, worked great with GeoPorts Telecom
Adapters. They should both be available from Bing Software (who now
own the distro rights) <
http://www.bingsoftware.com/>.
btw: if anyone knows were either Atticus Tysen or Paul Hurley went
after Cypress closed up shop I'd be curious to know.
jeff