Although I haven't used it, VOCP looks like an interesting piece of
software. It is a linux based phone messaging application, but seems to
have been built for easy setup with just a normal voice modem.

Probably you can do all the same things with asterix, but the greater
simplicity make this worth a look....

http://www.vocpsystem.com/

Chris Foster


Andy Carvin wrote:
> I've been playing with simple tools like audlink.com and
> audioblogger.com for over a year now. They're low tech in the sense that
> they can work on any phone. But they're not open source, so we can't
> install them anywhere, particularly outside of the US, so you need to
> make an intl call to reach them.
>
> If we could just get a simple open source system for doing what these
> tools do, that would be a tremendous first step. The only reason I began
> looking at asterisk was that it was the first open source tool I found
> that seemed capable of doing this. But I'm certainly open to using a
> simpler app if it can get the job done.
>
> Has anyone played around with other open source tools that could be a
> useful base for a mobcasting solution?
>
> ac
>
> Chris Foster wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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