[asterisk-users] phone as control interface (was 99 bottles of beer)

[Jon Pounder]

Quoting Steve Prior <sprior at geekster.com>:


personally my favourite still is phone in intercom mode listening at  
all times, if you have something to say, say it.

otherwise pickup and dial for control or to talk or whatever.

nothing preventing you from ignoring one of the options if you don't  
like it, or have a phone that supports it.



> Steve Edwards wrote:
>
>> Personally, I hate voice recognition systems. Voice prompts are
>> great, but don't take away my keypad.
>
> I never proposed to take away your keypad, I just wanted to add the
> voice option as well.  What I do want to get rid of is the step
> below where you press ** to get into remote mode.  What I think would
> be smoother is to have the extensions organized in such a way that
> the first button press (or voice utterance) is enough to determine
> whether the session is a phone call or an automation request.  Then
> as soon as the phone is picked up you'd get into the automation context
> and the voice menu you gave would start right away.  Then if it turned
> out that first button meant that the user really wanted to make a call,
> then Asterisk would shift into the normal call dialplan, but reprocess
> that already pressed key as part of the phone number to dial.
>
> I think that we can provide something more intelligent when the
> phone is first picked up than your basic dialtone and not require
> extra button presses to get into the right mode.  Your desire is for
> speed and so is mine.
>
> Steve
>
>>
>> Maybe I'm too far out on the edge of the bell curve, but I CAN remember
>> what Alison was prattling about long enough to be told which key to press.
>> Also, keys are much faster, especially once memorized as will happen
>> quickly for something as frequently used as the TV.
>>
>> Think of a task like muting the TV:
>>
>> ) Off-hook
>> ) Dialtone
>> ) Press ** (change to remote mode)
>> ) "To control the..."
>> ) Press 1
>> ) "To change the vol..."
>> ) Press 1
>> ) "To mut..."
>> ) Press 0
>
>
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Jon Pounder

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