[asterisk-users] Voicemail playback on iPhone

[Jason Lixfeld]

I guess what I'm asking is if there is a recipe anyone has used to  
allow a voicemail message (once recorded by asterisk) to playback on  
iPhone when said recorded voicemail is received as an email  
attachment.  I understand you can convert using sox, so I guess that's  
the ingredient and some sort of * configs would be the glue - I  
suppose it's the glue I can't figure out.  I'm not trying to figure  
out how to get voicemails to show up in iPhone VVM or anything like  
that.

If the voicemail configs can't be tweaked enough to record in a format  
iPhone can play, how can I get something like sox convert the message  
to another format before * emails the voicemail off to the callee?  If  
I understand correctly, the voicemail app takes care of the entire  
process from the time voicemail is recorded from the caller to the  
time it is sent to the callee (ie: email).  If that's true, then I  
guess I need to understand how to tell asterisk to fork from voicemail  
to some script to convert the recording to something iPhone friendly  
before we fork back to voicemail where we left off and actually email  
the message to the callee.

Am I making any sense?

On 24-Oct-07, at 11:12 AM, Baji Panchumarti wrote:

> Jason,
>
> I think there is a bit of terminology confusion here,
> you can easily convert from format to another using
> sox, so if your * server is going to record and email
> you a voicemail file, it can surely  "sox"  the file to whatever
> format the iphone needs it in and then send the email.
>
> It does not appear that the iPhone is using a proprietary
> format so just try the default recording format and see
> what happens.
>
> -baji.
>
> ps : I don't have an iPhone, nor have I used * voicemail yet
>        "caveat emptor" :-)
>
> --
>
> On 10/24/07, Jason Lixfeld  wrote:
>
>> Sorry, it's clear my question was far too vague.
>>
>> To clarify, is there a recipe to make * record voicemail in a format
>> that allows playback on iPhone's media/music player playback for
>> voicemails that are received say, in an email message.
>>
>> It seems the * voicemail defaults don't work.  This link seems to
>> describe codecs that do work, however I haven't seen any indications
>> as to whether * voicemail can be tweaked to record in any of the
>> supported formats:  http://www.kehlet.cx/
>>
>> Any success out there?
>>
>> On 22-Oct-07, at 7:38 PM, Ron Stephan wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Trick question I assume?
>>>
>>> It was mind numbingly simple on my iPhone...(though none of the
>>> voice mail worked when London a few weeks ago).
>>>
>>> - tap voice mail -
>>> - tap speaker (upper right) until it turns blue (is activate)
>>> - tap the message you want to playback
>>> - use assorted  controls to delete - replay etc.
>>>
>>>
>>> Now...if the question is ... how do you get asterisk voice mail to
>>> show up on an iPhone...I am all ears.  Groovy concept - if
>>> anybody has a hack - I'd love to see it.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Elvis
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com [mailto:asterisk-users-bounces at lists.digium.com
>>> ] On Behalf Of Jason Lixfeld
>>> Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 4:16 PM
>>> To: Asterisk Users Mailing List - Non-Commercial Discussion
>>> Subject: [asterisk-users] Voicemail playback on iPhone
>>>
>>> Anyone managed to get this to work?  What's the recipe?
>>>
>>> _______________________________________________
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