Conference hydra::amiga_v1

    There is a device by black box that, in addition to being able to
    process keypad input, has programmable voice response and a vocabulary
    of several hundred words. It was several hundred dollars and plugged
    into RS232. It would seem to me that there might be a less expensive
    possibility though.

Thanks for the reply...

Hmm, is that a voice recognition vocabulary, text-to-speech output, or what?

Couldn't find a company called 'Black Box' in any of my stuff,
can you give me a pointer?

Clyde

    Why not add a Sound Sampler to get the ring, DTMF etc
    and a Robot Arm to pick up the receiver
    
    
    		- Pete -
    

    Well I think Radio Shack had an audio line level interface to phone
    lines.  That could be hooked up to the audio out of the Amiga and its
    output could be attached to the sound sampler input.  The sound sampler
    is then connected sometimes to the parallel port.
    Then you need a modem perhaps to dial the phone or to answer the phone.
    Software running on the serial port would instruct the modem to be
    auto-answer and would detect when it answered.  Then a sound file could
    be played from a disk through the Amiga audio device to the audio phone
    interface to say "I'm not here leave a message beep."
    Then the caller would talk and the audio/phone interface would send its
    output to the audio sampler, and an audio sampler program would record
    the message at say 8k samples/sec 
    or less, byte-wide mono.  A half-megabyte of
    memory would hold like 64 seconds.  Then the audio device would beep
    that they were out of time.  After the caller hung up it could
    compress the living daylights out of it and store it on disk.
    Just a few random thoughts for those with time and money.
                 ________________________________________________phone line
           ______|__           _____|_________________
          | modem   |          | audio/phone interface|
          ----------           ------------------------
              |                   |audio in  |audio out _______________
              |                   |          -----------| sound sampler|
              |                   |                     ----------------
    ______________________________|__________________________|_________
    |   Amiga serial line        Amiga Audio out          parallel port|
    |                      AMIGA                                       |
    ____________________________________________________________________
    
    S/W: AmigaDOS;
    Modem manager running the modem auto-answer on the serial port.
    Sampler on parallel port.
    Speech synthesis or player on audio output.
    Supervisory program.
    
    Tom
    
    

>    Then you need a modem perhaps to dial the phone or to answer the phone.
>    Software running on the serial port would instruct the modem to be
>    auto-answer and would detect when it answered.  Then a sound file could

How do you get the modem to not attempt to get carrier detect so that the 
caller doesn't get blasted with the tone? 
(disclaimer: I haven't read any good modem books lately :-)


>                 ________________________________________________phone line
>           ______|__           _____|_________________
>          | modem   |          | audio/phone interface|
>          ----------           ------------------------
>              |                   |audio in  |audio out _______________
>              |                   |          -----------| sound sampler|
>              |                   |                     ----------------
>    ______________________________|__________________________|_________
>    |   Amiga serial line        Amiga Audio out          parallel port|
>    |                      AMIGA                                       |
>    ____________________________________________________________________
>    

I like it!    I have some time, anyone got some money? :-)

I imagine you could even ask the caller questions and have him/her respond
by pressing a touchtone button which the software/sampler could detect and 
decode! Just like the DCU Easytalk! ("Welcome to Amiga-Auto-Answer, 
would you like to leave a message? Press 1 for yes, 2 for no or press 3 if 
your not sure"  :-) :-) (sorry, I woke up tooo early this morning...)

john

    since I lost my modem manual I can't look for stopping hanging up when
    no carrier is heard, assuming that's it's behaviour, which I am not
    sure it is.
    Tom

    Re: .2
    
    BlackBox is a major distributor (in the U.S.) of computer odds-and-ends
    (hence their name). The device I referred to is a serial device that
    will send information when a phone rings. The device will answer it,
    can "say" some simple commands from its vocabulary to the caller,
    accept touch-tone input (and send that information to the serial port),
    and hang up the phone. It is not a modem, nor produces a carrier. It
    was about $300 if I rememebr correctly, but it stikes me that there
    should be something better on the market.
    
    
    Re: -.*
    
    The problem with those ideas is that you will find it hard to mix a
    modem carrier and a voice output to the same phone connection - plus
    "switching" from a carrier to a sound sample will cause most modems to
    

    Hi!
    
    I'v had this ide of build one interface by my own, i got all the
    stuff neded DTMF DECODER to get the commands from the telephone
    line to the amiga. 
    
    The only problem is that i can't make/build the auto answer part
    which detects the ring signal and then from the command of the AMIGA
    makes it stop ringing to connect the DTMF DECODER and my sampler
    + audio output from the Amiga.
    
    Then you can use it as a Answering machine and maybe as a game machine
    or what ever your imagin can create..
    I wants to use it for a NEW type of GAME that every body that owns
    a telephone can play by just using the keypad or a ton-dailer, but
    still i don't know how to create the autoanswer part of the
    electronics..
    
    M.V.H. JohSm   :-/

    One way to do it is to connect a neon lamp in series with a current
    limiting resistor (33k works well) and couple the light output to a
    solar cell (phototransistor or similar photodetector).  This output can
    then be conditionned and sampled on the input port, I guess that using
    the proper program you could sample the second joystick port, the
    serial port or the parallel port.
    
    -----------/\/\/\/\---------|
    line	33k		NE2 (neon lamp)
    ----------------------------|
    
    Jean
    
    

    I believe that it is illegal to connect anything directly to the phone
    line that is not FCC approved.  Only use little interface boxes from RS
    or somewhere.
    To0m

    Illegal? Not if ya own your own telephone network!?!!?!?!?
    
    Any how i'm going to use this when ever & where ever i want....
    
    M.V.H. JohSm   :-)