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Date:      Sun, 24 May 1998 23:40:32 -0700
From:      Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com>
To:        Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>
Cc:        multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Voice Answering Machine (Re: FreeBSD Newsletter #2 )
Message-ID:  <199805250640.XAA16274@rah.star-gate.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 24 May 1998 23:44:17 MDT." <35690531.A727E05D@softweyr.com> 

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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



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