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Good. I'll check them out. Unfortunately, that won't be for almost 2
weeks, since I'm about to leave on a trip.
In unrelated group, someone offered this, "I would think you could use a
BlackBerry or Treo and get QuickTime application to stream it."
Bruce Wyman wrote:
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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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