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Re: Reading phone tones by computer

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From: Michael L. Starr
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1988 19:16
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In article <195@tcville.HAC.COM> ferris@tcville.HAC.COM () writes:
>    I am looking for a device that will interface a phone line to a computer
>that will allow the computer to read the tones a caller presses and be able
>to send a digitized or computer generated voice in response to what
>is pressed.
>    I suppose that could be as simple as feeding the lines into a
>tone recognizer which would get turned into ASCII or hex and sent on the
>bus.  Voice generation is easy to find, but how about one that can be sent on
>a phone line.  Preferably this would be a card that could plug into an IBM PC.

I remember seeing such a device in this spring's Black Box Catalog.



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From: starr@shuxd.UUCP (Michael L. Starr)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: Re: Reading phone tones by computer
Message-ID: <180@shuxd.UUCP>
Date: 15 Nov 88 19:16:03 GMT
References: <195@tcville.HAC.COM>
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