ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related institutions. ***************************************************************************** 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: > ISEN-ASTC-L is a service of the Association of Science-Technology Centers > Incorporated, a worldwide network of science museums and related > institutions. > ***************************************************************************** > > >> >> 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. -- Wayne Watson (Watson Adventures, Prop., Nevada City, CA) (121.015 Deg. W, 39.262 Deg. N) GMT-8 hr std. time) Obz Site: 39° 15' 7" N, 121° 2' 32" W, 2700 feet "One nation under reason and knowledge." -- Anon.* * More or less anon. 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