Fetching Your Voicemail from the PC? 15
Ben Jackson asks: "I subscribe to the phone company's voicemail offering because it can take messages even when the line is busy. Although I would prefer vgetty, I can't afford to have several lines and a hunt group just to avoid missing calls. What I'm looking for is a tool you could call `fetchvmail' -- it would use a voice modem to retrieve voicemail and forward it on as a MIME attachment. Does anything like this exist?" We already have mgetty-voice and its ilk, why not something like this? Since many phone companies are now providing voice mail with the service, this would be a very useful utility indeed.
What about using YAC? (Score:1)
BuzMe (Score:3, Interesting)
No linux support, but otherwise it works for me.
hit the telephony sites (Score:3, Informative)
good starting point. Pointers to perl modules that allow you to control a voicemodem.
http://www.ostel.com/ [ostel.com]
Mostly geared toward being your IVR rather than responding, but they might be worth looking at, in case their cards and software can fill your need.
Might be hard to do (Score:2)
Maybe there is another way to do this that I'm not thinking about. Perhaps you could have your voicemail system default to forwarding its message to a paging system with an internet gateway or something.
Re:Might be hard to do (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:Might be hard to do (Score:2)
Look at it in analog... (Score:1)
Input sample to compare -> """"""""""""""""""""
Then all you have to do is compare the shape of the two waveforms, assuming you have a reasonably consistant connection, and are willing to do a little performance tuning (i.e. setting the acceptable difference between the two waves), it wouldn't be that hard.
whats the standard protocol? (Score:2)
CAn you be online and retrieve the data from the mailbox?
Check with the voicemail provider (Score:1)
AUDIX Systems (Score:1)
Will you local telco ever provide this service? Doubt it.
mbox.com.au (Score:1)
Nortel Unified messaging. (Score:1)
But, you stated that you don't want to spend the money for your own system and instead use the phone company's offering. This makes it all depend on your phone company. Many phone companies use Nortel's products and some actually offer this service. Sprint is the first to come to mind. Sprint uses Nortel for their switches and voice applications and does offer CallPilot Unified Messaging in many areas.
I'm quite sure that there are many other phone companies that offer similar services.
VOCP is a nice system (Score:1)
VOCP is a complete voice messaging solution, featuring voicemail boxes, email pagers and DTMF "command shells". Users can navigate the system using a touch-tone phone, leave and retrieve messages (by phone or through the web interface) and execute programs (optionally feeding the program numeric or even text input) on the host machine using the DTMF command shells.
Since it's mostly perl, I'm sure you could hack up something similar to what you are looking for.
VOCP Homepage [sourceforge.net]