[H-GEN] Telephony

[Robert Brockway]

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On Tue, 15 Jul 2003, Nikolai Lusan wrote:

> Rob's post about using some of the new features in 2.6.0(-test1) got me
> thinking about some stuff I have wanted to do for a while. Telephony
> stuff, there is support for it in the kernel and has been for a while. I
> know that Rob had a setup at his place before going 'Up North' on us ;)
> and I wanted to do some of those things (multibox messagebank, possible

It was cool to see the expression on people's faces when I told them my
voicemail messages got emailed to me ;)

> email or sms of phone messages to me) and explore the possibilites of
> having my linux box on the phone system.
>
> Does anyone have any advice or experience they would care to share?
> maybe some places with good example or documents they would like to send
> me too?

I used VOCP.  http://vocp.sourceforge.net/

Overall it was easy but I had to play a bit to figure out which codec my
voice modem was using (since this is largely undocumented).  By default
the messages were a bit quiet but VOCP comes with a tool to increase
volume for your greeting and the canned voice messages which come with it.

VOCP does multiple message boxes (up to 1000 last I checked, although a
few are comsumed internally).

Rob

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