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> Feature request: use Ekiga for collecting/contributing speech.

From Ekiga site:

Ekiga uses both the H.323 and SIP protocols. It supports many audio and video codecs, and is interoperable with other SIP compliant software [...]

So we should be able to use Ekiga as a SIP client front-end for the VoxForgeIVR application (Asterisk-based app) that trevarthen created. 

The main problem is that our current server resources would likely not be able to support the bandwidth required of a VoIP solution.  Where the web front-end server is located, there is not enough bandwidth to support VoIP (I've tried direct connections with people, and have been dropped many times).  On the VoxForge repository server (which is just a regular web-hosting service), we don't have root access, which (I think) is required for an Asterisk server.  If there is a way around this, please let me know.

thanks, 

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> If there is a way around this, please let me know.

Of course you can build * in a custom prefix from sources. The only difference is that you should configure it with all dirs:

./configure --prefix=... --sysconfdir=... --datadir=... and

probably some more options. There are different problems with firewall but it should work fine I suppose.

And SIP is a very nice idea of course.

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Hi nsh,

That seems sooo obvious now ... never even thought of doing that!

Might be a good SoC project,

Ken 

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