RE: Modems and Voice
RE: Modems and Voice
- Subject: RE: Modems and Voice
- From: Oliver Donald <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:58:11 +0100
On a similar note, is it possible to record sound from the modem? It plays
through in OS-X, and under OS-9 I was able to play it through wacky effects
in Logic or record to disk, but 'Modem' as an input source has never been
available under X as far as I know. If I can get PPP to pick up the phone (I
used to make it dial a number that goes ',,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,...') is
there any way to record sound from the modem?
-----Original Message-----
From: Glenn Andreas [
mailto:email@hidden]
Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 3:42 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Modems and Voice
At 8:14 PM -0700 7/21/03, Creed Erickson wrote:
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On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Tyson Tate wrote:
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>Are there any good resources or ideas on how I might go about
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>controlling the modem in such a way that I can:
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>
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>a) Have it pick up the phone after so many rings
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>b) Use MacOS's speech synthesizer to "talk" to the caller
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>c) Let the caller make choices by pressing numbers
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1) Such is a non-trivial telephony solution. Apple has no telephony
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technology that I am aware of.
They use to (Telephony Manager), being designed for that goofy little
dsp-based modem-thingy, but I believe that stopped working with OS 8,
and there is nothing in OS X
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2) What you describe is beyond the hardware capacity of Apple-supplied
modems.
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Sorry.
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Not quite true - I'm currently using a clamshell iBook as an
answering machine which does most of what the original poster wanted
(using "HotFax Message Center"), though it just plays sound files
instead of text-to-speech.
However, the built in Apple modems do have a number of other
restriction - no caller ID, and apparently with other modems, the
aforementioned software can be used like a speaker phone (but
something on the apple built in modems precludes that - not sure
what).
I did some investigation at some point, and it all comes down to
sending special AT commands to send/recieve digitized sounds (not
sure what format or how the touch-tones are recognized).
I once found a perl-based "virtual answering machine" for Linux on
sourceforge - perhaps that could be used to provide a start...
Glenn Andreas email@hidden
Author of Macintosh games: Theldrow 2.3, Blobbo 1.0.2, Cythera 1.0.2
Be good, and you will be lonesome
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