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    goodysunny1 Posts: 22, Reputation: 1
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    Jun 4, 2008, 11:25 AM
    Free telephone answering machine with voicemail
    Hi,

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    For a computer connected to a phone-line with modem,do you know any
    Free software which allows to record voicemail by caller,preferably with an
    Option to prompt the caller to do so.I mean by a caller who calls the telephone-which is
    Conn to the computer-just like a phone instrument with voicemail , but a software instead which does the same for the tel line.(telephone answering machine with voicemail)
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    seahwk83 Posts: 3,276, Reputation: 212
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    Jun 4, 2008, 04:56 PM
    Not free, Vista caller ID is freeware (of course, vista)

    I personally use Phone Tray, it does not have voice mail or answering machine but caller ID that shows on screen with call history save option. You can put a number on black list that will state message if a number calls that you have blacklisted. There is 9 diff. messages that can be said to caller on list

    # is blocked, Call did not go through as dialed, disconneted, # not in service, # not reciveing calls, No telemarketing call accepted, no dial tone and you have reached an invalid number
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    Jun 4, 2008, 05:07 PM
    This is not a software only solution. To do this you need a voice enabled modem. Such modems generally come with such software.
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    Jun 4, 2008, 09:05 PM
    I think I've tried just about every low-end software solution out there.

    My experience:
    1. Free ones suck - period.
    2. Best combination I found and used for many years - Winfax w/Voice and a US Robotics external non-Win modem and it still had it's sucky moments, although probably more the fault of Windows 98 than Winfax. I digress...
    3. None of them were "business" grade. Had I to do all over again, I would invest a good amount of $$$ in a proprietary hardware PBX/phone system and forgo the hours of troubleshooting, hung modems, hung computers, missed/cutoff messages, and disgruntled clients.

    To answer your question: forced to do so I would use Asterisk :: The Open Source PBX & Telephony Platform on an enterprise Linux flavor today.
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    Jun 5, 2008, 02:42 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by ScottGem
    This is not a software only solution. To do this you need a voice enabled modem. Such modems generally come with such software.
    Suppose , if a voice-enabled modem is there. can you let me know a freeware which would work.
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    Jun 5, 2008, 02:44 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Scleros
    I think I've tried just about every low-end software solution out there.

    My experience:
    1. Free ones suck - period.
    2. Best combination I found and used for many years - Winfax w/Voice and a US Robotics external non-Win modem and it still had it's sucky moments, although probably more the fault of Windows 98 than Winfax. I digress...
    3. None of them were "business" grade. Had I to do all over again, I would invest a good amount of $$$ in a proprietary hardware PBX/phone system and forgo the hours of troubleshooting, hung modems, hung computers, missed/cutoff messages, and disgruntled clients.

    To answer your question: forced to do so I would use Asterisk :: The Open Source PBX & Telephony Platform on an enterprise Linux flavor today.
    Thank you , would asterisk meet the needs of the question and on xp.
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    Jun 5, 2008, 05:59 AM
    Since any such application would require extensive testing with different modems, this is beyond the scope of freeware authors. So I doubt if there is any freeware that would do the job.
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    Jun 5, 2008, 09:24 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by ScottGem
    Since any such application would require extensive testing with different modems, this is beyond the scope of freeware authors. So I doubt if there is any freeware that would do the job.
    You may mention any freeware/s that meet/s the needs of the q and I will try it out.

    Thank you
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    Jun 5, 2008, 10:17 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by goodysunny1
    thankyou , would asterisk meet the needs of the question and on xp.
    No, the additional requirement of XP likely eliminates Asterisk as an option as it is distributed on Linux.

    Quote Originally Posted by goodysunny1
    you may mention any freeware/s that meet/s the needs of the q and i will try it out.
    Fonawy Standard appears to meet your requirements.
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    Jun 7, 2008, 10:29 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Scleros
    No, the additional requirement of XP likely eliminates Asterisk as an option as it is distributed on Linux.



    Fonawy Standard appears to meet your requirements.
    Thank you

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