On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 01:37:22PM -0400, ken wrote:
On 03/29/2011 01:21 PM Stephen Harris wrote:
With the right software and hardware (asterisk and an ATA) you can even use the conjunction of google voice and google chat to act as a "real" phone line. Indeed I just wrote up a process :-) http://sweh.spuddy.org/gvoice/
But I think that's getting a little off-topic :-)
OT OK. So how does this conglomeration work? Say I have an OpenMoko phone (openmoko.org) and connect to google voice on the web... can I
What I described, above, is how to make a real phone work with google voice. You pick up your phone and dial a number and it calls out via google chat; someone calls your google voice number and your phone rings as normal.
Basically it looks and acts like a phone line, but it's using google to do all the work.
With OpenMoko you need a SIP client and configure it to talk to the asterisk server (I'd _guess_ because I've never tried it).
It's possible you might find software for OpenMoko that can do the googlevoice/googlechat juggling all inside the phone. Dunno.
But I'm not sure this is the best solution for a _mobile_ device. You might just want to make your googlevoice number ring your cellphone for incoming calls (which will use minutes), and use a SIP client for outgoing calls (which will use data).
talk like a human on a landline? What phone number do the other humans get... to call me?
When you sign up with google voice you can pick (from their options) the phone number you want.
ATA means
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https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Analog_telephone_adapter
This one; it's a small device that lets you plug in a real phone and it will talk to a SIP server (asterisk, in this case).