Re: [hylafax-users] OT: Re: open-source outbound voice messaging solution?

[slwatts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Check out Asterisk (or www.voip-info.org)

It can certainly do what you ask, and
it is opensource and it is easily customisable, and I think someone has
written a perl interface for it.

It works best with digital cards, but
can also work well with analog ones, or FXO, FXS, ISDN gateway devices
and of course VoIP providers.

It can also be tied to hylafax but thats
mainly to support fax over SIP/VoIP stuff.

Sam

Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote on
14/09/2004 18:13:13:

> On 2004.09.14 09:10 Michal Rok wrote:
> 
> > I was approach by a friend of mine who is looking for an outbound
> > voice
> > messaging solution for credit collection.
He went through various
> > auto-dialer Dialogic & Windows based
packages, but almost all of them
> > had
> > the same limitations:
> > - limited customization ability when it
comes to launching jobs from
> > database,
> > - lack of voice message flexibility - i.e.
unable to speak out a
> > number
> > taken from database,
> > - unable to work in a different language
than english (i.e. rules for
> > speaking dates work in English only).
> > 
> > I was thinking that with basic Perl skills
and a piece of software
> > that just
> > reads wave files (and perhaps enables the
called party to press a
> > button to
> > replay the message) would be absolutely
enough - I could easily set up
> > my
> > wave files from database information and
send them out. So it would
> > look
> > just like hylafax, except for it would take
wave files, not
> > postscript.
> > 
> > Is anyone perhaps aware of an outbound voice
messaging solution that
> > would
> > be either based on Hylafax (not sure if
that's possible, but looks
> > like it's
> > a major difference), or just open source
but not related to Hylafax?
> 
> You can do the kind of thing that your looking for with just about
any 
> vgetty application.  An example would be
VOCP (a perl application using 
> vgetty).  This is what you would do if you
wanted to use a small number 
> of voice modems.
> 
> You could also do that with an advanced PBX system such as Asterisk.
 
> This is probably what you would do if you wanted
to use digital cards 
> and such (for T1 PRIs, etc).
> 
> Lee.
> 
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