On 10/6/07, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell@gmail.com> wrote:

On 10/6/07, Brandon Weeks <bjweeks16@gmail.com> wrote:
> I think you misunderstand.

You assume too much.

>Asterisk is a phone PBX that supports VoIP, it is
> not a internet chat application like Vent or TS.

Right. It's not the same, however it can be used for the same
purposes. I'm familiar with what the Ventrilo software does.

> No client is going to have
> a GUI anything like Vent, the clients used will be so called softphones
> that will dial the server. Channels are conference rooms in Asterisk,
> like office phone conference systems. Moderation can be done, but again
> the clients will have no GUI for this.

There are several web control panels for asterisk conference rooms
which could be employed to provide moderation.

It's true using asterisk won't provide exactly the same thing. It
would be something somewhat different with different problems and
different positive points.

The plus points include avoiding creating a dependancy for propritary
client software and propritary client operating systems, and a boat
load of more flexibiltiy. Want the PBX to call you when an item on
your watchlist changes? ... not hard to do. ;)

> Asterisk can use TTS but not for what you want.
> People will need a mic (or phone) to use the system.

Sure it could: Just setup a web client that pipes text into channels
via festiaval. It wouldn't be integrated with the softphone
software, but that need not make it hard to use.

Is TTS really something that people want?

I'd rather have STT: Voice chat is attention monopolizing and slow.

> For clients you need a softphone, Kiax is a good IAX softphone
> and X-lite is a good SIP softphone (or just google for "sip
> softphone" or "iax softphone").

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