Voice Answering Machine (Re: FreeBSD Newsletter #2 )
Amancio Hasty
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
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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