Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!dkuug!resam!andrew From: andrew@resam.dk (Leif Andrew Rump) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Voice Mail Message-ID: <1991May30.073220.1610@resam.dk> Date: 30 May 91 07:32:20 GMT References: <60710@sequent.UUCP> Organization: RESAM Project Office, SAS, CPHML-V Lines: 50 In <60710@sequent.UUCP> edw@sequent.UUCP (Ed Wright) writes: >----- News saved at 23 May 91 16:31:28 GMT >In article <1781@babcock.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu> abmg@cathedral.cerc.wvu.wvnet.edu (Aliasghar Babadi) writes: >%Hi, >% >% I like to be able to leave voice messages on a computer >%using telephone. for example: >% >% I call my friend at work she is not there I want to leave a voice >%message for her on her computer so later on when she logs into her >%account she see the voice mail and she can listen to it. >% >% 1- I want to know if there is such a system available. >% 2- Do you have any idea of how to do this? >% 3- Where can I get some help and more info on this subject? >% >%Thank you fro your help. >Although we have voice mail here at sequent, I have a hard time seeing the >big difference between it, and a $29.95 kmart answering machine, other >than perhaps the cost. With a company with more than one or two employees then the answering machine won't work! To answer the original question: Yes it exist and it works quite well. I tried it once when I called Island Graphics (a larger software house) in the States. My contack person was not in so the receptionist asked me if I wanted to leave a voice mail - Huh?!? Well, eeh, ok! Hello please ... He called! :-) He told me later that voice mail worked much better than notes and E-mail because it didn't get scribled on the way it came directly from the senders mouth. How it is done? Well you need to hook up a computer with an analog interface to the telephone system or if it's internal mail to a microphone. You also need a loudspeaker (a SunSparc has it all). Then you need some software to record the sound, a _*HUGE*_ disk and some software that makes sure the right person gets the right files for playback. It's quite simple actually! Andrew Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Stroedamvej 50, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark UUCP: andrew@ambra.dk, phone: +45 39 27 11 77 / Currently at Scandinavian Airline Systems =======/ UUCP: andrew@resam.dk, phone: +45 32 32 51 54 \ SAS, RESAM Project Office, CPHML-V, P.O.BOX 150, DK-2770 Kastrup, Denmark If it's broke, fix it (The MS-DOS way) If it aint broke, don't touch it (The Unix way) If we can't fix it, it ain't broke (Maintainer's Motto) If you can't fix it, fuck it (The U-boat way)