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Dialing a modem and playing a soundclip from c# web form codeHi, I want to recreate my own version of http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/
.. So basically I want to start with a basic, make the modem dial a number and play a soundclip to the person that answers. Can someone point me in the right direction? Thanks, Brent Brent,
It's likely to be a lot more complicated than you state, since the sound clip that is played is a custom sound clip that says your name and includes contextual information related to some of the questions you answered. But that's only part of the problem. These promos are done with a media server that puts MP3 streams onto the outbound call, usually through RTP transport. You would have to at least have a 2 line modem and a way to conference or "bridge" the two calls. Hope you make a lot of money with it! Peter -- Show quoteCo-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal: http://www.eggheadcafe.com UnBlog: http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com "Brent" wrote: > Hi, I want to recreate my own version of http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/ > .. So basically I want to start with a basic, make the modem dial a number > and play a soundclip to the person that answers. Can someone point me in the > right direction? > Thanks, > Brent > > > Well, I'm not so worried about that part, cause I could build a few clips
and then programatically choose which ones to play. So I'm thinking my regular internet connection will take the web request to set up the call, then just the modem to make the call and play the clip. Like I said, I just want to get the first step working. Dial a modem and play 1 sound clip over it. That's the part I need help with. Show quote "Peter Bromberg [C# MVP]" <pbromberg@yahoo.nospammin.com> wrote in message news:2E626833-894E-48EC-A407-E042A453EBEF@microsoft.com... > Brent, > It's likely to be a lot more complicated than you state, since the sound > clip that is played is a custom sound clip that says your name and > includes > contextual information related to some of the questions you answered. > > But that's only part of the problem. These promos are done with a media > server that puts MP3 streams onto the outbound call, usually through RTP > transport. > > You would have to at least have a 2 line modem and a way to conference or > "bridge" the two calls. > > Hope you make a lot of money with it! > Peter > > -- > Co-founder, Eggheadcafe.com developer portal: > http://www.eggheadcafe.com > UnBlog: > http://petesbloggerama.blogspot.com > > > > > "Brent" wrote: > >> Hi, I want to recreate my own version of >> http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/ >> .. So basically I want to start with a basic, make the modem dial a >> number >> and play a soundclip to the person that answers. Can someone point me in >> the >> right direction? >> Thanks, >> Brent >> >> >> Hi,
Dialing the modem is easy. Examples abound. The hard part is the remainder. Only a small percentage of modems (so called "voice" modems) support playing a wav file -- or other audio format. So, first you have to select a modem that actually will work. Next is timing. Standard modems, even voice modems, do not provide feedback that you can use to determine when something interesting has happened (such as a person answering the phone, or responding to something that he/she has heard that you "played"). IMO, you have your work cut out for you. Any advice that you receive should point you to more sophisitcated hardware, such as that designed for IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems. A PC and a modem simply isn't up to the task. Again, IMO. Dick -- Richard Grier, MVP Hard & Software Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, Fourth Edition, ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages, includes CD-ROM). July 2004, Revised March 2006. See www.hardandsoftware.net for details and contact information. Alot of older modems supported this (remember the old answerring machine
software systems?) Generally the API's were modem specific though if I remember correctly. Cheers, Greg Young MVP - C# http://codebetter.com/blogs/gregyoung Show quote "Dick Grier" <dick_grierNOSPAM@.msn.com> wrote in message news:ewI9u%23UwGHA.4612@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... > Hi, > > Dialing the modem is easy. Examples abound. > > The hard part is the remainder. Only a small percentage of modems (so > called "voice" modems) support playing a wav file -- or other audio > format. So, first you have to select a modem that actually will work. > Next is timing. Standard modems, even voice modems, do not provide > feedback that you can use to determine when something interesting has > happened (such as a person answering the phone, or responding to something > that he/she has heard that you "played"). > > IMO, you have your work cut out for you. Any advice that you receive > should point you to more sophisitcated hardware, such as that designed for > IVR (Interactive Voice Response) systems. A PC and a modem simply isn't > up to the task. Again, IMO. > > Dick > > -- > Richard Grier, MVP > Hard & Software > Author of Visual Basic Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications, Fourth > Edition, > ISBN 1-890422-28-2 (391 pages, includes CD-ROM). July 2004, Revised March > 2006. > See www.hardandsoftware.net for details and contact information. > Brent wrote:
> Hi, I want to recreate my own version of http://snakesonaplane.varitalk.com/ To dial a modem you could simply write commands to the modems com port.> . So basically I want to start with a basic, make the modem dial a number > and play a soundclip to the person that answers. Can someone point me in the > right direction? > Thanks, > Brent The dial command is typically ATD123456789. The problem you might have, however, is that .Net 1.1 doesn't have any built in support for accessing the serial port. If you are going to access the serial port there are plenty of examples on the net, inluding c# code samples. Failing that win32 has full support for serial communications. Let me know if want more details on interfacing with the serial port from .Net 1.1. Nick http://seecharp.blogspot.com/  |
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