From owner-freebsd-multimedia Mon May 25 22:27:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA23880 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Mon, 25 May 1998 22:27:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA23869 for ; Mon, 25 May 1998 22:27:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA22534; Mon, 25 May 1998 22:27:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199805260527.WAA22534@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 to: Wes Peters cc: multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Voice Answering Machine (Re: FreeBSD Newsletter #2 ) In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 24 May 1998 23:40:32 PDT." <199805250640.XAA16274@rah.star-gate.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 22:27:06 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just go thru testing the old mgetty+vgetty at my ftp site and it appears to work rather well so the next step is to figured out why the new vgetty records badly. Amancio > My old instructions on how to setup a voice answering machine > > ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/Voice.FAQ > > mgetty home page > http://www.leo.org/~doering/mgetty/index.html > > http://www.vix.com/hylafax/ > > mgetty/vgetty is okay however I think that hylafax is easier to use > than vgetty. There are hooks on hylafax to redirect voice calls to > a "third party program" such as vgetty perhaps for the short term > this is the best way to proceed. > > At my ftp site, there is an old version of mgetty + vgetty which I believed > the voice functions to work reliably . Tomorrow when I have more > time I will built it, test it and report back to the mailing list. > This can serve as a starting point to debug the current vgetty. > > Task List: > > 1. End User Documentation > > 2. Installation/Customization > > 3. First Cut . use hylafax/vgetty . The vgetty can be the one in > my ftp site: ftp://rah.star-gate.com/pub/mgetty097-Jun12.tar.gz > > Provide what I have over here : caller id support , forward > voice messages to mail recipient. Keep log of all incoming > calls -- this is just a simple tcl/tk program or java program > to display caller ID and log to a file. > > 3.a graphical customization or management of the voice answering > system. > > 4. Java stand alone application and applet to play back audio messages > First time around it will suffice to playback messages from a > directory . Second version should use a java database interface to > store and retrieve messages --- the idea here is to provide an > enterprise-wide answering machine. There are a couple of graphic > java packages which are capable of playing back audio and generate > a nice wave display so for know just pick one. For storing > audio messages perhaps postgress will suffice. There is a java jdbc > interface to postgress as well as a nice tcl/tk frontend for managing > postgress databases. > > 5. Once we reached a sufficient end-user level functionaliy write a nice web > page on how to use the answering machine . The web page should > be of sufficient quality to merit its inclusion at wwww.freebsd.org. > > I think that this is enough to kick off the voice answering machine > project and I need help. > > Tnks, > Amancio > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message