[hylafax-users] OT: Re: open-source outbound voice messaging solution?

[Lee Howard <faxguy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2004.09.14 09:10 Michal Rok wrote:

> I was approach by a friend of mine who is looking for an outbound
> voice
> messaging solution for credit collection. He went through various
> auto-dialer Dialogic & Windows based packages, but almost all of them
> had
> the same limitations:
> - limited customization ability when it comes to launching jobs from
> database,
> - lack of voice message flexibility - i.e. unable to speak out a
> number
> taken from database,
> - unable to work in a different language than english (i.e. rules for
> speaking dates work in English only).
>
> I was thinking that with basic Perl skills and a piece of software
> that just
> reads wave files (and perhaps enables the called party to press a
> button to
> replay the message) would be absolutely enough - I could easily set up
> my
> wave files from database information and send them out. So it would
> look
> just like hylafax, except for it would take wave files, not
> postscript.
>
> Is anyone perhaps aware of an outbound voice messaging solution that
> would
> be either based on Hylafax (not sure if that's possible, but looks
> like it's
> a major difference), or just open source but not related to Hylafax?

You can do the kind of thing that your looking for with just about any 
vgetty application.  An example would be VOCP (a perl application using 
vgetty).  This is what you would do if you wanted to use a small number 
of voice modems.

You could also do that with an advanced PBX system such as Asterisk.  
This is probably what you would do if you wanted to use digital cards 
and such (for T1 PRIs, etc).

Lee.

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