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While I'm also a huge fan of the DV-68, I think Wayne is talking 
about a device that will play the daily recording for an external 
person phoning in to the museum -- right?

In that case, I'd think it'd be fairly straightforward to get a 
computer to do that.  On the Mac side, I found these software 
packages in a quick search:

http://www.parliant.com/phonevalet

http://www.ovolab.com/phlink/index.php

Just glancing at the web sites, it appears that you can customize the 
outgoing message based on, well, based on a lot of things.  I don't 
know if you'd be able to schedule a different outgoing message each 
day for an entire month, but it looks like at least a week is doable. 
If you have hackers in your midst, they could probably set up an 
AppleScript or Automator script to schedule it out a lot longer.

The Philink one really emphasizes scriptability... it talks about, 
for example, how you can get it to look up the weather online and 
read the forecast to someone over the phone... so it seems like it 
ought to be straightforward to get it to play a sound file based on 
the date.

This seems like a very solvable problem (and a fun thing to 
implement, too).  Good luck!

--Allan



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Allan Ayres
Exhibit Developer
Lawrence Hall of Science
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720-5200
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