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RE: [ECS] Phone-interface-c Michael David Sat, 10 Oct 1998 15:04:02 -0400

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Hi Carl!

I using the good 'ole reliable Bigmouth, installed in a second computer,
running ECST.

Even though it's eight years old, it still makes better recordings than the
Zoom.

Cheers!

Michael David
michael@michaeldavid.com


-----Original Message-----
From:	Carl Keyes [mailto:carlkeyes@hotmail.com]
Sent:	Saturday, October 10, 1998 1:11 PM
To:	ecs-list@vancouver.ml.org; michaeld@michaeldavid.com
Subject:	RE: [ECS] Phone-interface-c

Hi Michael,

Just curious. Which modem are you using?

Carl

>Hi Mark S!
>
>When I was using the 2800 I experienced all of those problems.  In
addition,
>I found the TTS->Phone-C conversion distorted and unusable (this is a
>limitation of the Rockwell compression algorithms).  My biggest
complaint,
>even when ECS didn't hang up during the recording, was that the
recorded
>level was so low that we could barely hear it.
>
>I do want to point out that I don't think the issues with phone-ifc-c
are no
>fault of Mark's.  IMO, voice modems just suck.  :)
>
>
>Cheers!
>
>Michael David
>michael@michaeldavid.com
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Sekelsky [mailto:Mark@sekelsky.com]
>Sent: Friday, October 09, 1998 8:39 PM
>To: ECS List
>Subject: [ECS] Phone-interface-c
>
>
>I am using a Zoom ComStar 2800 SVD 33.6 with ECS (the recommended
>Windows/ECS internal modem) and am having numerous issues with this
modem.
>I want to verify that I am the only one with these issues and/or find
out if
>anybody has a trouble free modem.  Issues:
>During the "goodbye" at the end of a message being recorded ECS will
>occasionally lockup.  This is a relatively new issue.
>Occasionally somebody will be leaving a message and ECS will hang-up
during
>the message (and the are speaking loudly).
>Back when issue number 1 did not exist I found that after running for
about
>5 days the modem would stop sending sound to the external speaker.  A
reset
>using F5 would fix this.
>Anybody else have any of these issues?
>
>Mark S
>


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