Assumptions are bad, you are right. :) I think Asterisk is a better solution myself, even more so for a open organization like Wikimedia. If anybody is interested in how it works I can setup a demo on my Asterisk server (not much bandwidth but with GSM it should be fine).
On 10/6/07, Gregory Maxwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/6/07, Brandon Weeks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think you misunderstand. > > You assume too much. > > >Asterisk is a phone PBX that supports VoIP, it is > > not a internet chat application like Vent or TS. > > Right. It's not the same, however it can be used for the same > purposes. I'm familiar with what the Ventrilo software does. > > > No client is going to have > > a GUI anything like Vent, the clients used will be so called softphones > > that will dial the server. Channels are conference rooms in Asterisk, > > like office phone conference systems. Moderation can be done, but again > > the clients will have no GUI for this. > > There are several web control panels for asterisk conference rooms > which could be employed to provide moderation. > > It's true using asterisk won't provide exactly the same thing. It > would be something somewhat different with different problems and > different positive points. > > The plus points include avoiding creating a dependancy for propritary > client software and propritary client operating systems, and a boat > load of more flexibiltiy. Want the PBX to call you when an item on > your watchlist changes? ... not hard to do. ;) > > > Asterisk can use TTS but not for what you want. > > People will need a mic (or phone) to use the system. > > Sure it could: Just setup a web client that pipes text into channels > via festiaval. It wouldn't be integrated with the softphone > software, but that need not make it hard to use. > > Is TTS really something that people want? > > I'd rather have STT: Voice chat is attention monopolizing and slow. > > > For clients you need a softphone, Kiax is a good IAX softphone > > and X-lite is a good SIP softphone (or just google for "sip > > softphone" or "iax softphone"). > > _______________________________________________ > Toolserver-l mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/toolserver-l >
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