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 [...] > 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). -- rgds Stephen