[asterisk-biz] Portable conference system

[randulo]

Hi,

Does anyone make hardware to attach to a cellphone that would improve
the audio in both directions enough so that it could serve as a
speakerphone in a meeting? Second, for a 3g phone, is it feasible to
sit such a phone at a table during a meeting for 30 minutes or more so
that the person on the other side could see who was speaking (sort
of)?

Someone asked me to help as an ad hoc French-English interpreter. This
is a very hard job and I'm not great at it but they were desperate. I
could have helped out a friend if there were a system that allowed
people to do this at a distance. As I mentioned on Twitter, this might
even be an interesting business model, combined with asterisk and a
simple dial plan for scheduling and calling people on such a mission.

I was told that in the industry, you can't easily expect to connect to
the Internet for say, Skype with a Macbook ) which would be a
no-brainer - because of the paranoia of the sys people.

Any ideas on any of this? Thoughts? Making a better audio speakerphone
would already be of interest, video a plus.

/r