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- From: rgwillia@rockdal.aud.alcatel.com (Rick Williamson)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Voice Mail sound quality?
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 06:59:31 GMT
- Organization: Alcatel Network Systems
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- In article <4g6tsr$sbn@sirius.intxpress.co.nz>, john-ma@chch.planet.org.nz (John) wrote:
- :amnons@actcom.co.il (Amnon S.) wrote:
- :
- :rgwillia@rockdal.aud.alcatel.com (Rick Williamson) wrote:
- :
- :I have a USR Sportster VI 28.8 internal modem with voice mail. The quality of
- :
- :the recordings that I'm getting for the greeting and messages is questionable.
- :
- : I'm hearing a faint motorboat type sound in the background. The messages
- :are understandable and the quality is definetly better than an answering
- :machine with magnetic tape but the background noise is kind of annoying. What
- :
- :kind of sound quality are any of you who have voice mail modems getting? Is
- :this background noise typical or do you get crystal clear quality? Thanks for
- :
- :any responses.
- :
- :Interesting - my GVC-type 14.4 internal modem with voice mail has that
- :same faint motorboat sound, and superimposed on it is a faint trumpet
- :sound, in 2-second bursts with about 5-second gaps.
- :
- :
- I ended up taking the USR back and got a Zoom Comstar model 620. The voice
- mail has a much better sound than the USR, no motorboat. I just wonder if
- there is some kind of ground problem on the USR. The motorboat sound seems to
- indicate some kind of feedback.
-
- Regards,
- Rick
-