[H-GEN] Telephony

[Harry Phillips]

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Robert Brockway wrote:
> 
> I used VOCP.  http://vocp.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Overall it was easy

For you maybe but their instructions had me a baffled for a bit. On 
their home page it says that Mandrake etc come with the mgetty+sendfax 
packages. Then on the vgetty installation page it says to remove them so 
their can be patch it and install vgetty from source.

> 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
> 

Can't wait to start playing with it. I will finally be able to leave my 
PC in Linux at night to receive instead of booting into Windows to let 
Winfax do the job.

-- 
Regards,
Harry Phillips
--- Failure is not an option,
     it comes bundled with your Microsoft product.


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