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Re: [ECS] Need help with phone sound. KSU phone system joerut.epix.net Sun, 10 Sep 2000 20:28:45 -0400

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Hello Reddy

I had posted about a week ago that I have a way to have ECS to 
receive calls from outside lines as well as making internal calls 
WITHOUT loosing caller ID data. It requires a bit of external 
hardware and some CREATIVE programming of the phone system 
KSU as well as ECS. So far it is working fine. Another added 
feature with the this system is that ECS can SENSE wether a 
phone call is from an internal phone or external phone. This is nice 
because if you know it is an internal phone calling ECS then you 
can answer it immediately and have something that resembles a 
local phone session (except for having to enter the password) 
which was lost with the Bigmouth. I am currently in the process of  
of drawing up the connections in Autocad and a few of the 
subscribers asked for a copy. I will post when I have them available 
and will scan the drawings and E-Mail them DIRECTLY.

Later
Joe Rut


On 10 Sep 2000, at 17:27, Reddy Biggs wrote:

> Thanks everybody for both the personal replies and the ones here on the
> list.
> 
> It seems that my biggest angst in making this conversion is losing some of
> the capability to call extensions with announcements.
> 
> I am still on DOS, and want to get the ECS Win up to speed before I shut
> down the DOS version.
> 
> My problems in my own "beta" phase of my implementation so far are:
> 
> 1)  The sound via the Zoom modem is horrible. There is really low volume,
> and it's distorted.
> I added the ECS_ADPCM_REV item and set it to 1 and the problem is worse.
> 
> For text to speech, I have tried Mary and Mary for telephone. It already
> sounds like she is in space, or in a stadium, without adding those special
> effects!
> 
> I realize this is a hardware limitation, and not software.
> 
> What are you guys doing to work around this? Has anyone found a better voice
> modem ?
> 
> BTW, I found that the modem (Zoom 14.4V) was on the Win 2000 hardware list,
> so I re-installed it as a Zoom 14.4V. It does work better now...(It didn't
> work at all before....).
> 
> 
> 2) When making paging announcements, there is about a 5 second wait before
> sound even starts.
> 
> Can this be configured to only 1/2 second ?
> 
> 3) I cant get .wav files played to the phone during announcements, either by
> specifying them in the phone call item, or by leaving the phone call item
> "open" by using the X parameter at the end of the dial string , and then
> playing them via PLAY->PC:Ln/Sp .
> 
> I get a "Error #13 permission denied" error.
> 
> What is the trick here ?  The wav file play to the sound card great.  Can
> somebody send me a code snippet as an example so I can see what everyone
> else is doing for this?
> 
> Otherwise, I feel like I am re-inventing the wheel here. I am starting fresh
> and re-writing my entire ECS code. Since I have eight years of ECS code, I
> am having some difficulty remembering some of the algorithms used when I
> originally wrote the code. Is there a way to easily include remarks in event
> code ?
> 
> 
> Thanks guys !!
> 
> Reddy
> 
> 
> 
> 

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