On 3/7/06, Lee A. Azzarello <lee(a)rockingtiger.com> wrote:
Even though I have done it before, I still have the
belief that installing
Asterisk locally is overkill for a single person to make calls.
In wanting to bridge the world of Linux audio and asterisk telephony I
had desires far beyond
making a single phone call. I would argue, first, that a local setup
of "single user" asterisk could be made a lot easier (freeswitch is
veering in that direction) and the flexibility of having a pbx on your
laptop or wherever (local voicemail. call presence information.
Text-to-speech support. Etc)
In particular I wanted to make it easier to do a call in radio station
(see rivendell) and integrating the voice to mp3 function and music to
mp3 function struck me as asterisk with jack as a natural bridge...
If ladspa plugins could be run through asterisk or a jack compliant
sip phone you could give your outgoing voice calls a little bass boost
for that "voice of god" effect...
surround sound conferencing becomes feasible.
stuff like that. It doesn't make sense to me that these two worlds -
telephony and professional audio - should be seperated.
I haven't had much spare time recently to work on these ideas, but
freeswitch seems to be a bit more hackable than asterisk has become,
so I've been looking at that...
I'm not even
sure how an Asterisk jack channel would function for RTP input to Asterisk.
What would do the signalling?
Mentally to me, a jack port is a inband telephone connection, no real
signalling save perhaps silence suppression need be used... DTMF, etc,
generated in band...
--
Mike Taht
PostCards From the Bleeding Edge
http://the-edge.blogspot.com