Right now there are services that allow you to record MMS and have them
posted to websites. But I'd like to focus on making recordings by
placing a phone call to a voicemail server, since it guarantees that any
phone would be able to do the job, not just phones with recording
capability.

ac

Steven Livingstone wrote:
> I actually emailed the AudioBlog folks last night about this – the
> message bounced.
>
>
>
> I was thinking (in itself an improvement) that it should be possible to
> simply record a message on your mobile and email it.
>
> Indeed my mobile (like most I suspect) does allow this – the result is a
> .amr file type which is supported by quicktime and realplayer.
>
>
>
> I have server based email parser (C#) which I want to incorporate into
> Vidyo to auto blog messages in this way.
>
>
>
> However, would also be nice to be able to just call it too!!
>
>
>
> Sounds interesting!
>
>
>
> steven :: http://stevenR2.com
>
>
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> *From:* mobcasting@yahoogroups.com [mailto:mobcasting@yahoogroups.com]
> *On Behalf Of *Chris Foster
> *Sent:* 31 August 2005 10:46
> *To:* mobcasting@yahoogroups.com
> *Subject:* [mobcasting] Introduction
>
>
>
> A belated hello to the mobcasting list from London. My name is Chris
> Foster, and I work in the University of Arts, London in e-learning.
>
> I'm interested in all types of mobile technology, and I'm positive
> mobcasting tools could be very useful, both in the south, where mobile
> phones are available and literacy is patchy, but also in places like the uk
> where such software could be used as an aid to learning and social
> connections
>
> Open source telephone projects such as asterix are definitely a good way to
> go to having a realisible mobcasting tool (although like Andy I'm unsure of
> the telephony jargon). Also, it might be worth examining more "lo tech"
> solutions, even if only for some experiments. Hence, I flag a possible
> combination, I worked on recently.
>
> Initially all I wanted was to post to a blogger blog from a phone (without
> having to call the expensive US audioblog number!!). This is possible using
> the skypeIn service, some free skype answering software (called Jabbernut)
> and some glue code. With the skypeIn you can call a computer from any
> phone, and the answering software will save voicemail messages as wav
> files on the pc. It is then just a matter of detecting, converting and
> uploading those files to the relevant blog........But you can go further
> than that. When you call skypeIn from your phone, it can be answered by the
> answering software using a personalised greeting from your computer. It is
> possible to change this file automatically using a previous voice messages.
> Hence, a primitive mobcasting app. I hope to be able to adapt this in the
> future to allow art students to share critiques of public artworks within
> my job.
>
> I have to say that this type of approach has problems at the moment. The
> skypeIn quality is often so poor you cannot hear it and the answering
> software/my code is only just up to the task. Saying that I think that
> building this does highlight a number of issues, particularly the
> importance of a level of voice quality, and how exactly the interactions
> would work. Anyone interested in trying it out is welcome to email
> me for the code i wrote, its not too complicated, written in python.
>
> It seems like the technology is nearly good enough to build some really
> useful telephone/pc hybrid applications and I look forward to working with
> the list to help develop them.
>
> Cheers
> Chris
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