On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 14:51, you wrote: > Can i clarify please, will these devices work with any SIP type VOIP > service or is the hack limited to hooking into Skype?
Fundamentally it is a device that allows you to plug a phone handset into your soundcard (mic and speaker jacks) in place of a headset (mic and headphones). Anything you can do with a headset you can now do with your phone. Amazing! If you have a cordless phone then you are free and unfettered. Don't expect anything more than that. But wait, there is more... You can run a program that sits and monitors the microphone signal. If it detects DTMF tones (generated by the telephone keypad) it can convert them to keypresses. The keypresses can be assigned to functions in another app. The only program I have used which does this is the chat-cord 'driver'. It works only with Skype (and maybe only under Windows). The DTMF tones are converted into dial commands and hang-up commands. Since it is a well-defined problem (convert DTMF to action) it is likely that there are other programs to do this. That's all I know. A
