Is there a Visual VoiceMessage App for 6700?

PPCFreak · #1 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 12:32 PM

Is there a similar app to the Visual VoiceMessage app that is found on the iPhone?

I was playing around with a friends iPhone and that was about the only thing I saw on it that I would like to have on my 6700 WM6 phone.

THanks.

sshearer · #2 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 08:08 PM

It might be helpful if you could describe the Visual VoiceMessage functionality on the iPhone, as I doubt many of us have even seen it.

On the other hand, when I read your posting, I was wondering if it's a program which will behave like an answering machine, resulting in a recording of the caller's voice within the device's local storage in some kind of media file format.

If this is true, I'd also love to have something similar on the 6700. From what I've read, while WM6 provides some interesting APIs, the 6700 doesn't have the necessary hardware links between the 'phone' & 'PPC'. If I'm wrong - GREAT - but tell me why & prove it

**tiermann** · #3 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 09:04 PM

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Originally Posted by sshearer

It might be helpful if you could describe the Visual VoiceMessage functionality on the iPhone, as I doubt many of us have even seen it.

On the other hand, when I read your posting, I was wondering if it's a program which will behave like an answering machine, resulting in a recording of the caller's voice within the device's local storage in some kind of media file format.

If this is true, I'd also love to have something similar on the 6700. From what I've read, while WM6 provides some interesting APIs, the 6700 doesn't have the necessary hardware links between the 'phone' & 'PPC'. If I'm wrong - GREAT - but tell me why & prove it

I'm not sure what visual voicemail is either, but for what you're talking about sshearer, it's possible. Windows controls where all audio is routed to, so no reason you can't record it. If it didn't, then bluetooth headsets wouldn't work very well.

I'm not sure exactly how it works, but if there's a mixer channel for phone audio in Windows Mobile like there is for everything in Windows then it could be very simple. If not, then the tricky part is writing a driver which does have support.

sshearer · #4 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 05:12 PM

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Originally Posted by tiermann

... Windows controls where all audio is routed to, so no reason you can't record it. If it didn't, then bluetooth headsets wouldn't work very well.

I'm not sure exactly how it works, but if there's a mixer channel for phone audio in Windows Mobile like there is for everything in Windows then it could be very simple. If not, then the tricky part is writing a driver which does have support.

Given the above, would you care to add a comment to a message I left a little while ago at http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=12637 ?

I like your statements above - they follow my line of thinking as well. My problem is that I don't have the software development tools (any more) - but I can write a mean requirements document

Greg · #5 (**permalink**) 12-11-2007, 06:05 PM

If you don't mind a) giving out a different number and b) going to a mobile webpage to view/listen to your VM's. Grand Central can do something like that, not to the Apple/ATT polish, but it is something to look into.
www.grandcentral.com
Google bought it and it's still in beta. It has as a lot of other neat features for call management as well.

PPCFreak · #6 (**permalink**) 12-12-2007, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Greg

If you don't mind a) giving out a different number and b) going to a mobile webpage to view/listen to your VM's. Grand Central can do something like that, not to the Apple/ATT polish, but it is something to look into.
www.grandcentral.com
Google bought it and it's still in beta. It has as a lot of other neat features for call management as well.

Grand Central doesn't solve my issues/requirements. Plus GrandCentral does not support my state yet (Iowa).

I am looking into another possible route. Using the same thinking that some other web based software uses (CallWave as an example). The biggest issue I am running into right now is I don't know if I can change the way the voicemail works on my phone/carrier.
Would like the voicemessage to be left on a different number (example: someone calls my cell, I don't answer, forwards the caller to xxx-xxxx instead of my cell #). Thats where I am current stuck at....

I have a small setup at my work that works this way with our incoming lines (direct dial lines) and if I can change where my voice mail forwards to, I might just be able to get this working.

pyrobot · #7 (**permalink**) 12-05-2007, 09:00 PM

USe Simulsays. It's a little finicky but you can work through it by adjusting settings, etc.

https://apps.simulscribe.com/signup/simulsays

ran-o-matic · #8 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 08:33 AM

On the iPhone, the visual voicemail function is an app on the phone and server-side support to deliver the data. A 6700 will easily run its side of the system, but you need both to dup the function. Simusrcibe (mentioned above) does just than. It is cool, but kind of buggy. The original Apple version is just cool.

PPCFreak · #9 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 01:01 PM

The biggest part of the Visual Voicemail that I am looking for is the 'Who Left the Voicemessage', 'How Long is the Voice Message' and 'When was it left'.

I don't necassaryily need to have it recorded to my phone as seperate wav files for each voice message (although that would be pretty slick).

Just would like the heads up display on who, how long, and when a voice message was left.

And I agree, the original Apple version of the App is pretty darn cool.

Thinking OutLoud Here: Would it be possible to .net code to trap the VoiceMessage indicator, then possibly login to your voicemail and listen to the messages/record it?

**luv2chill** · #10 (**permalink**) 12-06-2007, 01:27 PM

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Originally Posted by PPCFreak

The biggest part of the Visual Voicemail that I am looking for is the 'Who Left the Voicemessage', 'How Long is the Voice Message' and 'When was it left'.

I don't necassaryily need to have it recorded to my phone as seperate wav files for each voice message (although that would be pretty slick).

Just would like the heads up display on who, how long, and when a voice message was left.

And I agree, the original Apple version of the App is pretty darn cool.

Thinking OutLoud Here: Would it be possible to .net code to trap the VoiceMessage indicator, then possibly login to your voicemail and listen to the messages/record it?

What you want would requre the voicemail provider (in this case your carrier) to provide that information to the handset (who, how long, when). Currently none of the CDMA providers' voicemail systems do that--Sprint's being the worst offender in that it never even reports how many messages you have.

As for your .net app idea it's not feasible due to the fact that the phone cannot record sound that plays through the earpiece. So to "record" the playing message it would need to put the device in speakerphone mode. I suppose that's possible but do you really want your voicemails playing over the speakerphone at random? Not to mention the fact that that solution doesn't have any way to know how long to record for, who left the message or when. I don't know if you were expecting it to use voice recognition but that would be impossibly complex for anyone other than a big software company to put together.

This is something that will probably be ubiquitous in 2010, but for now there's not really anything you can do about it.