[BC] Auto-recorder which creates MP3

[Bernie Courtney]

or just order up SIP DID's and you dont have the outlay for custom hardware.

On 10/26/05, Fred Gleason <fredg at salemradiolabs.com> wrote:
>
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:36, Mike McCarthy wrote:
> I know of several multi-line
> modems which are normally used for fax banks that will do what I need
> on the phone line side and will interface to a computer. Each line is
> a COM port.
>
> You might want to check out Asterisk for this:
>
> http://www.asterisk.org/
>
> I've played with it a little bit. It includes integrated VM, and you can
> get
> to the resulting audio files directly (either in WAV or GSM format, or
> IIRC
> even in MP3 if you've got the correct codec (LAME) installed). If the VM
> interface towards the caller is acceptable, then this may be the ticket.
> PSTN interface cards are available from Digium ranging from a single POTS
> connection to 4 PRI/TI circuits (96 channels total) per PCI card.
>
>
> > Then there is the all in one box which will do this in a non-Windows
> > environment and has IP connectivity which can be access through our
> > production computer.
>
> A Rivendell system could do this, using a Linux box with an ASI5042 and
> GPI
> card and eight couplers. The couplers would generate a closure to signal
> 'off-hook', and the recorders would roll accordingly. It'd be a lot of
> hardware and wiring and setup though. My sense is that the Asterisk
> approach
> would be cleaner, and probably cheaper as well.
>
> Cheers!
>
>
>
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