[H-GEN] Speaking of getty

[Robert Brockway]

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On Sun, 24 Feb 2002, David Jericho wrote:

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> On Sun, Feb 24, 2002 at 01:10:52AM +1000, Robert Brockway wrote:
> > This turned out to be relatively painless to get going.  If there is
> > sufficient interest I'll do a talk on it as there were a few "gotchas".
> > 
> > It seems quite powerful.  Out of the box it can hold up to 1000 user
> > voicemail boxes less a few for system stuff.
> 
> I showed it to my housemate, and almost let go of his self control. Plan
> is to ditch the old tape answering machine and replace it with vocp.

Way to go :)
 
> Does anyone have experience with good voice modems under linux?

I have 3 modems in the house.  The first one I tried was an old 33k6
internal I still have in my server.  It turned out not to be a voice modem
(duh :)

The 2nd one I tried was an Acer.  It was kind of working but I had a 3rd
one I wanted to try...

I tried my old Wavetable modem and it worked first go.  It is pretty
no-name.  The brand isn't written on it but it was something like
"web blazer" or something like that :)

The important bit is the chipset (of course ;).  Both the 2nd & 3rd ones I
tried were Rockwell chipset modems, so it seems not all chipsets are
created equal.

Tip: I ran into a problem with volume.  I RTFMed and found it was quite
common.  Messages coming over the phone were far too quiet.  One person
mentioned that he'd used the pvfamp to increase the volume on the pvf
files.  I did this & it worked.
Rob


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