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- From: dross@cambizola.cs.wisc.edu (Dan Ross)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: TDD with Mac w/ microphone?
- Message-ID: <dross.725739025@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 18:10:25 GMT
- Sender: news@cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: U of Wisconsin Madison - Computer Sciences
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- Discussions about TDD (telephone device for the deaf?) protocol
- have brought out the following:
- - TDD uses 5-bit code similar/identical to Baudot
- - TDD uses no carrier
- - TDD CANNOT be emulated by most "standard" computer modems
- - TDD has a fairly low baud rate
- - both parties signal using the same frequencies rather than a
- originate/answer pair, using frequency-shift keying
-
- What I'm wondering, is there any reason that a microcomputer
- with sound digitizing equipment (e.g., a Mac with microphone) and
- sound output port (e.g., a Mac) couldn't be used to emulate TDD
- protocols in software? Since TDD calls can be placed to a voice
- part who then switches on the TDD, they could be handled similarly
- with the user placing the handset near the microphone and speaker
- appropriated.
-
- I know software for the Mac exists which will allow FAXes and RTTY
- signals to be decoded using the builtin microphone--any reason
- (sampling rates, etc.) that the same couldn't be done with TDD?
- (Or does such software exist?)
-
- Also--is there a good 'standard' reference on 1) the operation specs
- of TDD and 2) how to write software which 'recognizes' frequencies,
- etc.?
-
- Dan
- dross@cs.wisc.edu
-