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am is an Answering machine/Fax/Datacall handler for ZyXEL U-modems
and computers running the NeXTSTEP operating system.
am was originally written by Patrick Stein <jolly@cis.uni-muenchen.de>.

This is am.1.16 which adds ADPCM_3 support (much better sound quality) 
and some bug fixes.

Axel (kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de)



What's new?
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The new version of zyxel2snd will convert ADPCM2 and ADPCM3 coded zyxel
sound files to 9600 samples/second linear 16-bit .snd files. Still,
zyxel2snd reads from stdin and writes to stdout.

You can improve the sound quality, get rid of the clicks and save
diskspace by doing a sndconvert -s 8012 -f 1 -o <newfile> <soundfile>
on the converted sound. am will automatically do this conversion and
put the new soundfile in lib_am/New_Ones_Snd if present.

snd3zyxel generates a .zyxel File from a .snd file in ADPCM3 coding.
Usage is same as snd2zyxel.

The bug in am which caused the recorded soundfiles to contain errors was
fixed by changing rec_message.  If it happens that a recorded .zyxel file is
_not_ playable as a welcome message, re-record it with the new am.

How to?
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compile and install as usual (see README.ps)
Be sure to have defined SPEECH to ADPCM_3.

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I'm still working on improvements to am. Send me your wishlist.


Enjoy.

Any questions, suggestions, bug reports, postcards and chocolate should
be sent to the following address: kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de
I will gladly accept NeXTmail.

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Axel Habermann                        \\|//    "Wenn Du nicht
kiwi@belly.in-berlin.de (NeXT-Mail)   )o o(     weisst was Du
kiwi@cs.tu-berlin.de (NO NeXT-Mail)   \ | /     tust, mach's
am.1.16: +49 30 4543046                \~/      mit Eleganz!"

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