[thelist] Using the computer to answer phone calls

Ed Shuck edshuck at noevalley.com
Thu Oct 25 13:37:33 CDT 2001


i also like dialogic.  there are several companies that are heavy hitters in
the field and all have really stable products.  one of the things that rolm
(now Siemens) did was mature the product and software gracefully.  what i
mean is that they did not and do not jump to each new widgit.  a product
will have a multimonth (6 or more for small changes) and (even a year and a
half for new major interations).  they  really beat on the box.  and so do
all the other big companies.

they all want their product support to be like the Maytag man.  this can
only benefit the customer in the long run.

peace



----- Original Message -----
From: me <me at cgiguy.com>
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Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 10:41 AM
Subject: Re: [thelist] Using the computer to answer phone calls


>
> Have you looked at www.dialogic.com ??
>
> They sell some really nice telephony boards.
> I really like them. Its been a few years since
> I've used them, but i dont remember the audio
> files being very large. In fact, i remember them
> actually being somewhat small. And no, they do
> not store wav files. There are, if i remember
> correctly, a couple of options that you can choose
> when it comes to encoding formats of the audio
> that ya want to store on disk. very nice boards.
>
> Its really very fun to code these boards. They are
> capable of handling any type of telephony project
> including:
>
> answering machine
> automated banking services
> predictive dialing/telemarketing
> fax (inbound and outbound if i remember correctly)
> record voice
> playback voice
> detect touchtones
> yada
> yada
>
> with these boards, you could not only build an answering
> machine, but you could also program it to automatically
> call your client and deliver his messages to his cell phone
> or allow him to call in to pick up the messages like most
> standard voice mail systems allow.
>
> As I say, its been a few years since i have used them
> but they used to cost about $300/line. eg, if you buy
> a four line card its gonna set ya back about $1200+/-
> They also sell single line cards.
>
> They come with a very nice set of drivers, easily callable
> via dos/windows/unix and/or c/assembler or otherwise.
> most likely easy to interface with for vb coders too.
>
> have fun.
> me.
> Nuevo Laredo, Mexico
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
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> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2001 9:13 AM
> Subject: [thelist] Using the computer to answer phone calls
>
>
> > A client wants to enable a computer answering machine.
> > I can deal with the software and hardware issues.
> >
> > My question is most of these programs use .wav files for storage.
> >
> > Aren't these rather large files and do i need to consider another
> harddrive
> > for storage?
> >
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