brainwagon

I’ve been experimenting with voice-over-IP telephony using the Asterisk open source PBX system, and I’m at the point where I’d like you to help! I’ve setup a phone number with VoicePulse Connect! to route to my Asterisk server, and configured a very simple extension so that you can record comments about my blog. Whatever charges you normally acrue will be charged for this call, but feel free to waste some of those free nights and weekend minutes and a minute of your time to try it out:

When you dial 510-323-0224, you’ll hear this:

Welcome to the brainwagon.org comment line, powered by Asterisk, the open source PBX system. I’m experimenting with using VOIP technology as part of my weblogging and podcasting experiments, so I’d appreciate it if you’d go ahead and leave a message at the beep. Feel free to include any comments (positive or negative) about my blog and please include a brief rating of the voice quality (say, from 1-10) and whether you accessed this number from a cell phone, a regular land line, or via some other VOIP service like Vonage. Your comments will be recorded, and I reserve the rights to retransmit them as part of a future podcast. If that’s okay with you, wait for the beep and record your message. When you are done, hangup, or you can hit the pound sign, and it will play back.

Ultimately I’m interested in using Asterisk to setup telephone conferencing with automatic recording so that I could do a podcast with others, all linked together via phones of any convenient sort. This is one small step in that direction. Thanks for participating in my experiment.

[tags]Brainwagon,Podcasting,VOIP,Asterisk[/tags]