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- From: wkrause@kaa.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfgang Krause)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: ZyXEL as answering machine ? (PC-Software)
- Date: 28 Dec 92 14:29:22 GMT
- Organization: Rechnerbetrieb Informatik - RWTH Aachen
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- Message-ID: <wkrause.725552962@kaa>
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- Keywords: Zyxel
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- Hi !
- After upgrading my ZyXEL modem to 5.02 ROMs, I learned, that the new
- ROM versions contain a voice mode, that digitizes sounds from the
- phoneline.
- So I FTPed the latest version of ZFAX (I think its 2.1). While the package
- contains quite a lot of docs about the voice-features, ZFAX itself is
- a lousy answering machine (cannot set silence sensitivity, no skipping
- of messages, no remote changing of outgoing message, etc.).
-
- Dont get me wrong here. While ZFAX probably is quite o.k. for receiving faxes,
- the voice features are rather modest, compared to what the ZyXEL COULD DO.
-
- I was thinking about the following features:
- - everything a decent telephone answering machine can do
- - timestamping of messages
- - personal voice-mail
- - voice menus (like most companies seem to have these days)
- - FastFaxts-like features (select a document and get it faxed to you)
- - automatic message forwarding (program the number, where you can be
- reached and let the modem forward messages to that number). Same thing
- could work for faxes !
- - send timed voice (bulk-)messages (New Year Greetings etc...)
- - Anthing else you can do/operate with a TouchTone phone and a Fax-machine
-
- Hmmm. Ok. Some of these ideas are a bit over the top, but IMHO all of
- these things CAN BE implemented with litte software on the PC-side, since
- most is already handled within the modem.
-
- Since at least some of these ideas are obvious, I would think, that someone
- has already written some PC software in that direction. If so, could
- someone please tell me, where to find it, otherwise, I might just start
- writting some code.
-
- Thanks for any hint. If I find/get any info, I will post !
-
- HAPPY NEW YEAR!
- Wolfgang.
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