gnhlug-discuss digest, Vol 1 #333 - 4 msgs

[Bruce Dawson]

On Sat, 2003-02-15 at 12:00, gnhlug-discuss wrote:
> Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 18:18:50 -0500
> From: Bob Bell 
> To: gnhlug-discuss
> Subject: Recognizing touch tones
> 
>     Someone has approached me about writing some software that would
> basically provide a phone menu.  It would recognize touch tones (phone
> button presses), gather information, provide voice prompts, and take
> action based upon the information entered.  Any idea what it would take
> to accomplish this?  I'm pretty sure I could record WAVs/MP3s/etc for
> the voice prompts and such, but the biggest question for me is around
> the use of the phone.  Specifically:
>     1) How do I respond to incoming calls?
>     2) How do I get an audio file to play into the telephone?
>     3) How do I recognize touch tones as input?
> 
>     Obviously, I'm asking because I would expect to use Linux as the OS
> on which I develop a solution.  Does anyone know how to accomplish these
> things?  Perhaps there's an Open Source package that has a number of
> these features?

Check out vgetty - part of the mgetty package. (Although it may be its
own package by now). It handles voice capable modems. Its probably
not ideam for your application (unless it has improved *a lot*), but
its a start.
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