Voice to web gateway

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On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, John Marshall wrote:

> there's no link to download it. After receiving your email I realised it

I fixed that.

> My need is for a simple voice mail system. The most important thing for me is
> a simple outgoing message. My current message says 'To leave a message for
> Lisa, press 1. To leave a message for John, press 2. To leave a message for
> both of us, simply speak after the tone' BEEEEP. It then mails the resulting
> file to either or both of us.

First, launch mvm from that script, so that SELECTED_LANGUAGE is set
appropriately and thus mvm won't ask. You can also modify directly
/etc/mvm_definitions.sh instead of doing this two-level exec.

#! /bin/sh

export SELECTED_LANGUAGE=NO_ASK
exec /usr/lib/mgetty/mvm_vgetty_script.sh

(ie from voice.conf)

Then modify the main menu (/usr/spool/voice/main/commands) by hand as
follows:

1 message_to_user 0 1
2 message_to_user 0 2
3 message_to_user 0 3

assuming lisa is user 1, etc. The third argument (here always 0) is
the access level. Unless you want people to identify themselves first
(ie create or access an account), and give them the ability to do so, you
want a 0 there (anonymous, -1 within mvm at this time).

You now need to change the menu message, which is

   /usr/spool/voice/main/welcome

One way to do that is through the menu editor (menu command 9 if
you didn't update the menu yet, you need operator access for this,
ie in that case user 0).

> When I initially installed MVM I was overwhelmed by all the options. I also

The software leaks some documentation.

> had some problems because I could not understand the messages generated by
> rsynth. I replaced this with festival and it was a little better.

The last version of mvm supports festival, and two versions of rsynth,
however I didn't release it yet. You may still want to apply the latest
mvm patches.

> Simply creating a message and the mailboxes was not something I could not
> easily fathom.

The easiest way to create the mailboxes and notification is through
the WWW gateway.

> If you have advice, I will gladly listen. Of course, I'll share any changes I
> make to MVM, or maybe write a HOWTO or something else useful.

That would be useful.