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Ah, the light slowly dawns........................................
You'all are talking about what we used to call "An Answering Machine"!
Why invent problems?
Reagan Cole,
Durham, NC
-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce Wyman <[log in to unmask]>
>Sent: May 16, 2007 5:19 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: The Magic Phone Gadget?
>
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>>
>>http://www.parliant.com/phonevalet
>>
>>http://www.ovolab.com/phlink/index.php
>>
>
>I've used both Phone Valet and Phlink and both will do what you're
>trying to do, after you jump through a couple of hoops. (I've also
>used asterisk and would be quick to admit that it takes some effort
>to get going quite like you want it and requires some additional
>hardware. Both Phone Valet and Phlink come with a USB device that
>hooks up to your *analog* phone line)
>
>Allan's approach is along the lines I was thinking of.
>
>You'll need to rip your subscription CDs into individual audio files
>-- if the tracks are individual tracks on the CD, you can just use
>iTunes to rip them to mp3s (or aac or other, you're going to probably
>use a mac mini for this, so whatever iTunes will rip, the mini will
>be able to play back in Phone Valet or Phlink).
>
>I'm not at the office (at AAM in Chicago) so I can't poke at either
>Phone Valet or Phlink to suggest the best way to rotate the daily
>message, but my suspicion is that just some applescripting will do
>it. At worst, you could have a 5 minute manual process in which
>someone on staff just selected the new audio file as the welcome
>message each day.
>
>Also, if you didn't do applescripting within Phone Valet or Phlink to
>change the messaging, you can do a wide variety of unixy cron jobs to
>do file renaming in the finder based on the date, essentially never
>touching Phone Valet or Phlink, just renaming the new file to what
>they both think the outgoing message file actually is.
>
>I've used both Phone Valet and Phlink to set up a phone-in audio tour
>with some basic menus and different audio bits based on selection. We
>also capture audio responses in one portion of the tour. I've found
>Phlink to be a little less reliable than Phone Valet, although
>they're both pretty good products. We now use Phlink to answer an
>internal help line and email the phone messages to specific staff.
>Phone Valet runs the audio tour.
>
>When I'm back in the office next week, I can take a closer look at
>both products and see if there's an incredibly obvious way to solve
>the problem that I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.
>
>Oh, and let me reiterate -- both products are expecting an analog
>phone line (RJ45 jack).
>
>-bw.
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>Denver Art Museum / 100 W 14th Ave. Pkwy, Denver, CO 80204
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