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- From: zben@ni.umd.edu (Charles B. Cranston)
- Subject: Re: decode touch-tone phone with Mac?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.175627.26108@ni.umd.edu>
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- References: <1992Jul24.233559.17582@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 17:56:27 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.233559.17582@leland.Stanford.EDU>,
- Eric Topp <topp@roses.stanford.edu> writes:
-
- > ... I'd like to decode the signals generated by a touch-tone phone
- > so that the Mac can can recognize which phone buttons were pressed...
-
- The Amateur Radio people use touchtones to control repeaters etc.,
- so there are a number of touchtone decoder boards available in that
- market. You could interface to a UART and send into the Mac serial
- port. Alternatively, you could build something from the standard
- commercial touchtone decoder chips.
-
- You might look at some high-end modems, I think I read something in
- the Zoom modem manual about being able to SEND touch-tones so you can
- use it as a dialer, but I just don't remember if it could READ
- them also. You might also investigate watson/voice-mail boards.
-
- For a real cheapie you might try schmitt-triggering the audio
- into nice square TTL waves, converting to RS232, then going in
- through one of the modem control lines on the serial port
- (like GPIn if you have one of the macs that implements it).
- Then you would have software do zero-crossing-detect timing and
- see if you can figure out the touch-tone from the pattern.
-
- The advantage would be cheapness, the disadvantage would be you
- would have the mac processor there constantly timing the zero
- crossings so the machine would freeze until the process was
- completed...
-
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