On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 21:43:51 -0600 lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 20:42:23 +0200 > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need a little app that will let me dial out and answer the phone > > using a voice/speakerphone modem to a normal (Luddite) telephone > > line. What I have found seems to be either dialers (minicom works) > > and voicemail/answering- machine programs (vgetty, tkvoice, ivm). I > > voicemail with have that with the phone company. I simply want to be > > able to use my headset as a normal, old- fashioned talk and listen > > telephone. > > Well, either you want to use your phone line and phone for phoning or > your internet connection, a headset and your computer. For the latter, > check out ekiga and the like. > > You can dial phone numbers with a modem, then pick up the phone and > have the modem hang up to take over (check out minicom and the > documentation of your modem), depending on how your phone and modem are > connected. If you want to use a headset, you should be able to get one > for phoning that connects to your phone (line). > > Other than that, you should be able to connect a soundcard to the phone > line, and maybe it's possible to use a headset on a second soundcard > and some software that transfers the sound from one card to the other. > If you have tone dialing, you could record the tone the phone produces > for each number and play these soundfiles in the appropriate order on > the soundcard that is connected to the phone line to dial. That would > be an interesting way to do it ... :)
Asterisk? It may be overkill, but from the little I know of it (I've never actually used it), it can almost certainly do what the OP wants, although IIUC, he'll need special hardware to connect to the POTS. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
