Re: Don't like unsolicited calls?
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 momentnoises.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=swfid=6 -- Charles-Henri ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Don't like unsolicited calls?
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 momentnoises.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. :-) Helge Hafting ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Don't like unsolicited calls?
2009/2/3 Helge Hafting helge.haft...@hist.no 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 momentnoises.where were we?, could you take it from the beginning, my aunt wants to hear about that too! Or, for the Python fans, I'm terribly sorry... I can't hear you, sir, could you try speaking in a lower register? [1] 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. :-) Brilliant :) [1] e.g. http://montypython.50webs.com/scripts/Series_1/82.htm ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: Don't like unsolicited calls?
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. Has anyone else noticed this? Surely that's a feature? :) Sarton ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
