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Re: [ECS] Phone/intercom -> SR Carl Keyes Mon, 18 Oct 1999 10:35:39 PDT

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Mark,

On some phones when the intercom button is
pressed on the phone it will beep the base
unit and a button must be pressed there before
you can be heard thru it.
On the Panasonic unit you can speak to the base
as soon as the button is pressed on the phone.

later,

carl



>From: Mark Gilmore <omnip@usit.net>
>Reply-To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
>To: ecs-list@netbloc.com
>Subject: Re: [ECS] Phone/intercom -> SR
>Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 07:21:16 -0700
>
>Carl,
>What do you mean by "must be answered at the base" ?
>Tanx
>--
>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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