Helge Hafting wrote: > Crane, Matthew wrote: >> The auto-detect routines that make a human or answering machine >> determination before switching to an operator seem to fail consistently >> when answering with my openmoko phone. I'd rather they didn't call at >> all, but at least when they do you don't have to listen to a sales >> pitch. A very good thing for sure. >> > > Well, this phone is programmable. Put the unwanted numbers on a blocking > list, and have the FR auto-reject them without ringing. > > For something more creative, have the phone pretend to answer. It could > "listen" to the sales pitch. When silence is detected, pick from a pool > of short .wav files that say random stuff like "interesting, tell me > more", "could you please repeat that?", "just a > moment....<noises>.....where were we?", "could you take it from the > beginning, my aunt wants to hear about that too!" > > Obviously, such a program should update the phone log with how much > telemarketer time it has wasted. And a high-score list where you can > see who has talked for the longest time before realizing that something > was wrong. :-)
Such a thing already exists. http://www.custom3dgraphics.com/index.php?pg=swf&id=6 -- Charles-Henri _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community