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Re: [ECS] Speak-Messages Bill Walters Sat, 19 Sep 1998 11:37:39 -0500

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Mark,

So why is a Voice-Recording made with Phone-Interface-A able to be played
back through a speaker and not have ECS stop all event processing?

From ECS documentation:

5.9.4.117  Phone-Recording-A Type    Page 187

 Holds a sound recording made with Phone-Interface-A. Note that
 these recordings occupy significant disk space (7.9K/second).

 THIS TYPE IS NOT SUPPORTED UNDER W95.
 THIS TYPE IS NOT SUPPORTED BY ECS.EXE (W95).

 The following occurs when this Item is set as specified:

 State                      Action
 --------------- ------------------------------------------------
 Do Not Play         Stops playback when PLAYING.
 Play                      Plays thru the phone cable if a Phone-Session is
                               active. Otherwise, it is played thru a
speaker.
 Play->Phone         Plays thru Phone-Interface-A
 Play->VA             Plays thru Voice-Interface-A
 Play->VB             Plays thru Voice-Interface-B
 Play/NW->VB     Plays thru Voice-Interface-B without waiting
                               (Event processing continues). This Item then
                               becomes PLAYING.
 Record                  Records new file.


Bottom line:

If ECSD/ECST can play a Phone-Recording-A item through Voice-Interface-B
without waiting, why then cannot you play a Phone Message which is recorded
by Phone-Interface-A through Voice-Interface-B without waiting also???


Bill Walters



Mark Gilmore wrote:

> Such capabilities would require message-playback to operate
> in the "background" while event processing continues.
> I may support this in the future, but it would be quite
> a chore, and would only be supported by ECS.EXE (this
> would require multi-tasking).
>

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