Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!giza.cis.ohio-state.edu!erd From: erd@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R Dicks) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Answering Machine Message-ID: <75609@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Date: 12 Jan 90 16:00:16 GMT References: <9001112057.AA09595@nomad> <2934@d75.UUCP> Sender: news@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu Reply-To: Ethan R Dicks Organization: Ohio State University Computer and Information Science Lines: 37 In article <2934@d75.UUCP> robin@reed.UUCP (Robin D. Wilson/1000000) writes: >In article <9001112057.AA09595@nomad> antunes@ASTRO.PSU.EDU (Sandy Antunes) writes: >>Hello! I am planning to try and implement an idea, and I thought I would >>check the net to see if anyone has done it or thought about it yet. >> >>The Idea: write a program that monitors the modem and answers incoming >> calls. It then procedes to use the speech capability to answer the >> call with a message (from an easily changed script file), then hangs >> up (I doubt it could record messages! :-) >It would probably be hardest to get the modem to talk in any language other >than carrier tone. (That's the high pitched squeal you hear when you pick >the line that the modem is using. If you could get your hands on a cheap 1200/300 auto-answer modem, with the schematic, it should not be difficult to hack it. It would probably be easier to buy a cheap answering machine and to hack the audio circuit to accept input from the Amiga's audio-out port. If I remember correctly, there are audio pins on the RS-232 port. Make a cable which grabs all the needed pins and passes the normal pins on to the modem. There should also be a couple of unused signals on the serial port which could be monitored to interrupt the Amiga and tell it to speak, as well as for the Amiga to activate the tape recorder. How does it sound so far? -ethan -- Ethan R. Dicks | ###### This signifies that the poster is a member in Software Results Corp| ## good sitting of Inertia House: Bodies at rest. 940 Freeway Drive N. | ## Columbus OH 43229 | ###### "You get it, you're closer."