Help using MSCOMM to make a call.

[tjtindal]

I currently am using mscomm to make a call through my modem. It works just fine. The thing is, I simply don't know how to send sound from my computer through the modem to the person who answered the phone.

Basically, I want to be able to use a microphone to talk to the person who answered the phone, and then hear what he said through my speakers. Surely this is possible, and perhaps I just don't know exactly how to word my search on the internet.

Any ideas?

 

[dglienna]

Easiest way is to start with a voice modem. It oftens includes software that includes answering-machine functions.

-David
2006 & 2007 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
2006 Dell Certified System Professional (CSP)

 

[tjtindal]

Thanks dglienna, but I've already thought of that... in fact, I've already got one of those! I don't have any software for it though, and I just want to rig it up in VB if possible...

 

[dglienna]

Look on Planet Source Code. Lots of apps there. Even a talking caller-id program that I've tried.

-David
2006 & 2007 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
2006 Dell Certified System Professional (CSP)

 

[tjtindal]

I'll give it a shot, but if anyone else has any ideas, I'm all ears.

 

[tjtindal]

---Okay, let me change my question. I've gone into Control Panel / Sounds & Audio Devices and changed both Sound Playback & Voice Playback under the Audio & Voice tabs, (respectively,) to Modem #1 Line Playback.

By doing that action, I would *assume* that anything I play from now on would try to play it through the modems tiny little pathetic speaker. Well that's what I get for assuming, it doesn't work at all. Even by changing those, it still plays sounds normally through the speakers.

So-- new question: How do I bypass my speakers and make sound come out ONLY through the modem's tiny speaker?

 

[dglienna]

There was something on

http://www.vbforums.com

a year ago, or so.

I think you have to send the modem an AT command to switch over to voice mode.

-David
2006 & 2007 Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP)
2006 Dell Certified System Professional (CSP)

 

[SteveGlover]

I seem ro remember that you have to add a semi-colon ; to the end of the dial string, otherwise the modem will try to establish a data connection, something like

ATDT phonenumber ;

This should cause the modem to dial the number, then return to command mode without establishing a data connection. You will then have to send AT commands to get the modem into voice mode.

Hope this helps (hope its right!)