Re: TAPI / .wav files

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Jack wrote:
* Garbled sound: How to check the modem.
Make the following test:
1.
. In Windows>Control Panel find:
Windows XP ---> Sounds, Speech and Audio Devices ---> Sounds and Audio Devices ---> Audio tab
Windows 2000 ---> Sounds and Multimedia or
Windows 98 ---> Multimedia
and select your modem's driver as a default Playback device.
Usually the modem's wave driver will look like this: Modem #0 Line Playback
2.
Open Windows Media Player and load your wave file.
3.
Make a phone call using dialer software. It can be Windows Dialer or Tapi Browser.
4.
When the phone call is received press Play button in Windows Media Player.
5.
Do not forget to set back default playback device to what you had before.
Jack


Jack, thanks for the instructions on how to do this. I was able to run the test, and almost all wav files sounded crappy. Most of them sounded like they were skipping, for example:
"we're sorry, your call cannot be completed as dialed. please check the number and try your call again"
sounded like:
"we're sorry, your call dialed please check call again"

Only one wave, out of the hundred or so that I played, sounded ok, and it was just a short 1 second long SIT tone.

I guess it is a safe assumption to say that my modem isn't very good at wav playback, as Adam has already suggested. It's a USR 56k Winmodem, from around 1998. Are winmodems not very desirable for wav playback?

I suppose it's time to try a different modem.
.

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