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To: Kim Culhan <kimc@w8hd.org>
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Subject: Re: voice comms on freebsd 
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From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
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>>> Kim Culhan said:
 > 
 > Since I've been 'off the list' for a couple of weeks now, what is the curren
     t
 > state of things wrt ports of duplex voice comms for GUS hardware?
 > 

Howdy, 

I am developing "bat", freeBsd Audio Tool. Is going to function a lot like
vat. 

So far, I have silence detection from the nevot distribution, gsm encoding,
and raw audio, point to point comm, and ip multicast support. 

bat does not do any volume or mic selection thats done with vmix however
unlike the current vat / vmix interface bat talks straight to the 
sound driver.

Over a short period it will evolve into a net asnwering machine with
sound slots or mailboxes, speed dial, ability to record or play back a sound 
stream in a session, bracketed sound streams to allow comm between distant
sites.

I will probably make an alpha release to the multimedia group in about 
a day or so . I just have to add a graphical interface to some of the 
options that I implemented -- gsm data compression selection or raw 
audio, silenced detection selection, etc...


	A high-pitch shriek to the group :)
	Amancio