another GPS idea - speed-sensitive voicemail

Michael Welter mike at telecommatters.net
Sun Jul 29 15:20:51 CEST 2007


You're confusing GSM (Global Systems Mobile) with the gsm codec in 
Asterisk.  They have different meanings.  The codecs used by your mobile 
phone are not the same as the gsm codec in Asterisk.

Shachar Shemesh wrote:
> Ian Stirling wrote:
>> There are 2 D/A, 2 A/D flexibly routed, and one D/A that is dedicated
>> to the earpiece.
>>
>> About the only limitation is that you can't do things that would
>> require more IO sources than are available.
>> For example, playing stereo MP3, and acting as voicemail/answerphone
>> may not be possible.
>> (It'd have to drop to mono).
> Lost you there. You seem to suggest the following route for recording
> voice calls:
> 1. Call arrives compressed with a GSM codec
> 2. Phone decompresses codec
> 3. Phone moves uncompressed stream through D2A
> 4. Phone further moves stream through A2D
> 5. Phone compresses the resulting stream
> 6. Phone saves compressed stream, presumably to the flash
> 
> Why not just do:
> 1. Call arrives compressed with a GSM codec
> 2. Phone saves compressed stream to flash
> 
> I really don't see why the A/D infrastructure needs to be involved in
> voice recording at all. In fact, it seems that it should be easier for
> the phone to save the call than to play it to the speaker.
> 
> Shachar
> 
> P.S.
> Asterisk, for example, saves most of its recordings (pick up greeting,
> extension selection, voice mail greeting etc.) saved while compressed
> with GSM codec. As far as I understand things, if OpenMoko did that,
> playing a recording would involve getting it off the flash and dump it
> into the GSM line. Extremely light on CPU, and thus unintrusive.
> 
> Sh.
> 
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