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Re: [ECS] Phone/intercom -> SR Mark Gilmore Sat, 16 Oct 1999 07:21:16 -0700

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Carl,
What do you mean by "must be answered at the base" ?
Tanx
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Mark Gilmore
Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
http://www.usit.com/omnip
423-745-0026


ckeyes wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> That's exactly what I've been trying to get to work here.
> I got a Panasonic KX-TC911, about $80, that has an instant on
> intercom.
> A lot of them have to have the intercom answered at the base
> which defeats
> the purpose.
> I opened up the unit and cut the leads to the speaker, and
> ran
> wire back to the ECS station from the unit. There I hooked up
> 
> a small speaker in an enclosure with a small mic thats wired
> to my sound in.
> Sounds funky I know.
> I tried wiring the leads directly to the sound in, thru a
> mixer, but got
> a lot of hum, even after lowering the levels.
> This actually works pretty well except the unit will produce
> some
> static at times that SR can interpret as commands.
> You might ask around about wiring the speaker leads directly
> into
> the mic input without getting the hum.
> I trained the commands thru the phone and was able to get at
> least
> 90% accuracy.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Carl
> 
> Mark Gilmore wrote:
> 
> > Anyone know of a good cordless phone(s) which supports
> > an intercom (preferrably also wireless) ?  I want to find
> > such a product for use with in-house speech-recognition,
> > whereby the user would speak commands thru the phone on
> > the intercom setting. The intercom speaker would be placed
> > near the sound card.
> >
> > The only downside I see to the approach is that ECS's
> > responses would not be played back thru the phone
> > (hardly a show-stopper).
> >
> > Tanx
> > --
> > Mark Gilmore
> > Omnipotence (ECS home automation software)
> > http://www.usit.com/omnip
> > 423-745-0026

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