Anyone ever tinkered with the "Voice" part of vioce modems?

[Hodgkinson]

(Ok ok another not-quite so Amiga related thread...)

I’m wondering if anyone here has ever tinkered with voice modems? E.g. Tried to use a modem to make standard voice phone calls?

I've just been tinkering with some spare PCI cards under XP and I've pretty much decided to give up for what it's worth. I've had two serious errors (XP Pulls the plug style) in as many hours :crazy: and that was with the latest driver from the Intel page for the modem...Apart from that, I can't seem to get the microphone side of the system to work (With a microphone/headphone plugged into the jacks on the card...Both tested and working OK...)

Comments appreciated ;-)
Hodgkinson.

EDIT: "vioce" ... drat ... Darn QWERTY keyboards :crazy:

[yogisumo]

Used to use my A4000 with a Zyxel 288s external modem as an answering machine/fax machine.

Can't remember the name of the software though...

[steve30]

Not done any on the amiga, other than setting the modem to dial 1471 and listening to it through the modems speaker, but back around 2001/2 ish I used my WinModem on Windows 98 to make/recieve phone calls a few times. I just used speakers/microphone plugged into the soundcard and the modem had a cable that connected it to the soundcard.

The software (BVRP PhoneTools) also had the ability to fax stuff as well as an answering machine.

Can't remember whether I faxed stuff from PhoneTools but I certainly did using Microsoft Outlook. I still have an answering machine file (wav file) from PhoneTools.

[wurzel]

yogisumo wrote:
Used to use my A4000 with a Zyxel 288s external modem as an answering machine/fax machine.

Can't remember the name of the software though...

Perhaps STFax, now available on aminet.

I've been using it for years (still do).

It's great for confusing those callers (Would you like an entry in our phone book?) type of thing.

You set it up to answer to their call (you need CLI) Hi, is that (name of Company) then wait a second for them to reply. Then you say: NO I DON'T WANT AN ENTRY IN YOUR BOOK, NOW STOP RINGING ME!. hehehe, it worked - no more phone calls  :lol: