Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!sugar!karl From: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: voice mail (was "(None)") Message-ID: <4250@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 30 Sep 89 06:19:04 GMT References: <1989Sep26.035842.18131@i-core.UUCP> Reply-To: karl@sugar.hackercorp.com (Karl Lehenbauer) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 34 In article <1989Sep26.035842.18131@i-core.UUCP> pete@i-core.UUCP (Pete Ashdown) writes: >Has anyone thought of doing voice-mail on the Amiga? >...something similar >to the NeXT's voice-mail. I remember reading that it only uses 8 bit samples >at something like a 20 khz sampling rate. Actually the sampleing rate is more like 6 Khz. You are correct that they're 8-bit. All the pieces for the code to create and email voice messages are there on the Amiga. Without writing any code you could use a sampler to create an IFF 8SVX file, uuencode it, and use UUPC or GNU uucp or somesuch to email it around. (I use UUPC all the time and it works fine. You can email me on my Amiga, it's karl@snoc.hackercorp.com) The file you sent would be nonstandard in the sense that Next machines couldn't play it (it'd be an IFF 8SVX file). The source code to the interface program used to come with Perfect Sound, it might still. You could get 'hold of that or somesuch and write up a cool program to do this. Use Fibonacci delta compression to get the rate down to 3 KB/sec. Compress blank spots too, but try to get Next's format I guess. >It would probably be more of a >novelty than anything else because of the size of the packets, but it still >would be pretty cool. It'd be OK on a LAN or for local calls (especially w/high speed modems), but the net (especially the UUCP part) is not ready to have substantial amounts of this stuff emailed about. -- -- uunet!sugar!karl "There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that -- flags do not wave in a vacuum." -- Arthur C. Clarke -- Usenet access: (713) 438-5018