[linux-audio-user] voicemail?

[M P Smoak]

On Wednesday 25 May 2005 04:14, Mario Lang wrote:
> M P Smoak <smoak at mis.net> writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > In my work I use telephone in similar ways.  In both cases,
> > phone calls are data.  In both cases, the calls are usually
> > "team interactions" and often the team wants to keep minutes
> > of the meeting.
> >
> > Right now we have need to replace the tape recorder with a
> > linux recorder. So I've hooked-up the old RadioShack adapter
> > to mic in for the SBlive and have experimented with reZound
> > (ver 0.11.1beta), one channel using qamix. And it works;  a
> > 10 minute .rez file is about 100 meg, a shows an large
> > difference in loudness between the local and remote callers,
> > as expected.
>
> I'D suggest asterisk.  IF you can manage to route your
> conference call through asterisk, you can nicely record calls
> with gsm compression. The resulting files are small, and the
> sound quality is good, and you get the same loudness for both
> ends...

Am I confused or are you?  Isn't asterick for internet telephone
servers?  We are not setting up a server or interested in internet
telephone.  We want to use record from conventional phones on
desktop computers, not servers.  I just don't see where asterick
could apply.

Thanks,
Marv