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Rob Hellstrom (rob_hellstrom@yes.optus.com.au) wrote:
> I want to know of at least one voice modem with support for Linux so I 
> can develop my own voicemail/telephony apps under Linux. Can anyone 
> help? Perhaps a driver exists for a voice modem actually sold in 
> Australia?

Can't help directly, but my experiences might be useful.

I have a one year old Banksia 14.4 voicemodem, ummm.. "MyVoiceModem" it's
called.

I found a thing called "voice" on the red hat 4.1 six CD set, probably from
the Sunsite collection. It seems to do a very reasonable job of answering
the phone and taking messages with the modem, except for one tiny little
problem :-)

I recorded the welcome greeting and the instructions for leaving a message,
using the headset microphone that was supplied with the modem. They played
back through the modem's speaker fine (again using the 'voice' software) but
a little on the faint side. When I telephoned myself to test it out, I could
hardly hear a thing although it was obviously playing the recordings as it
should. Re-recording with louder voice or closer to microphone simply caused
distortions.

Note, however, that I'd also had these problems under windoze. With the
supplied windoze software I'd had select the lower record-quality option
otherwise my recordings were full of blips and distortions (no I didn't
swear either), and I could never get anywhere near the volume of the sample
recordings supplied with the win software.

You should look into this further, even if only to see if the documentation
gives you more clues towards your objectives than it did for me. The doccos
refer to the URL of a site which lists the voicemodem commands. (sorry, I'm
not on that machine right now)

I really suspect that the software works with the modem, as it would with
any similar rockwell-based voicemodem, just that I don't know how to rig up
the recording right. If only I could use my sound card and convert the sound
file later... but to what format?? I tried to cat the .rif files from the
windoze set to /dev/audio and it sounded like an explosion :-)

I did not attempt to test its ability to receive faxes, I was too
disappointed to proceed.

Regards,
        -*Sue*-
sue@welearn.com.au