rauscher@dimacs.rutgers.edu (Rich Rauscher) (11/13/90)
Does anybody know if there has ever been a voice-mail
system implented on SparcStations?
If not, and there is interest shown, I may begin working
on one myself.
Thanks,
-Rich
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UUCP: {backbone site}!rutgers!rauschernsb@THUMPER.BELLCORE.COM (Nathaniel Borenstein) (11/14/90)
Using the Andrew Message System, you can send lots of different media types across lots of machines, including Sparcs. The standard Andrew distribution does not include voice as an object type, but at least two sites (Xerox PARC and someone else, I forget who) have written Andrew "insets" for voice, thus creating voice mail integrated with multi-font text, tables, animations, pictures, and more. For more information about Andrew, see the info-andrew mailing list (info-andrew[-request]@andrew.cmu.edu), reproduced on netnews as comp.soft-sys.andrew. -- Nathaniel Borenstein
J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft) (11/14/90)
>Does anybody know if there has ever been a voice-mail >system implented on SparcStations? Rich, i believe voice integration for the multi-media conferencing stuff on various projects (DARTNET/ BBN et al) has been done - you might save some work in just getting voice in&out decently contacting casner@isi.edu... btw - does anyone know where a public domain voice 'talk' for sparcx? thanx jon
CASNER@VENERA.ISI.EDU (Stephen Casner) (11/14/90)
We have a program called Voice Terminal (VT) that allows us to talk over the Ethernet using the SPARC audio device. VT creates ST connections to access bandwidth reservation services over the long-haul net. The original question was about using voice for mail, which has a number of differences from real-time interactive communication. Replies have already been sent about Andrew and Slate. I think those would be the most helpful paths to follow. -- Steve -------
hans@sics.se (Hans Eriksson) (11/14/90)
In article <9011131735.AA26138@venera.isi.edu> J.Crowcroft@CS.UCL.AC.UK (Jon Crowcroft) writes: >Does anybody know if there has ever been a voice-mail >system implented on SparcStations? Rich, i believe voice integration for the multi-media conferencing stuff on various projects (DARTNET/ BBN et al) has been done - you might save some work in just getting voice in&out decently contacting casner@isi.edu... btw - does anyone know where a public domain voice 'talk' for sparcx? We have a multimedia project going on here at SICS. It is a part of MultiG where the "G" also stands for Gigabit, but that is another story. Yes, we have voice-talk running between SPARCs and soon also Macs wil be able to join in. It is more that just "raw" voice-over-tcp as we will keep the sound synchronized, ie a constant delay, no more, no less. If we get out of sync, we will delay or speed up the sound a bit. Usually you wont notice it. In a couple of months we wil also have picturephonetalk running. The voicetalk is a student project which will finish by 5 dec with a (hopefully) nice report. By then I think we can ship the stuff as it is to anybody interested. Beware though, the user interface is a bit crude, comparable to normal "talk". If you are interested, drop me a line, and I will happily send you the report in beginning of december. You will also get the MultiG project spec as a boon... /hans -- Hans Eriksson (hans@sics.se) Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), Box 1263, S-164 28 KISTA, Sweden Tel: +46 8 752 1527 Fax: +46 8 751 7230 Home: +46 8 32 68 97