Caller ID Superfecta » Winunciator

Feedback requested from all. Cyrano has an interesting idea. Are there other special configuration settings we should have also? What do you think of his idea for supressing CNUM speaking if CNAM is known?

another one would be to ask the user is the configure box what their default area code is, and if it matches the caller, do not say the area code, just the last 7 digits - as least for us in the US here?

thinking about it, if the name is known, then you prob already know the phone number, again it could be a check box selectable option - example for me is if it says Rena Theater Inc, I already know the phone number and don't need to hear it :)

It could go ether way, using VB6 myself, it would not be hard to just have a check box option to not "say" the phone number, and let the user decide. The more friendly the program is the more people are gonna use it etc.

These options make sense to me - but I think we should plot an entire logic tree for them - and not appraoch the upgrade haphazzardly. There may be a variety of options to have -

table for number speaking:

SPEAK:    name    number                    "No Number" 
known:
name        yes    no (configurable)    no
number        no    yes                    no
nothing                                yes

"No Number" should be choosable for language adaptation, like "Preamble".

    *SPEAK*:    name    number            "No Number" 
*known*:    
name            yes    no (configurable)    no
number          no     yes                  no
nothing                                     yes

"No Number" should be choosable for language adaptation, like "Preamble".

Cyrano - I am close to understanding - but need more help.
I see you have tried formatting twice. Please dont give up -

         *to SPEAK*:    name    number      "No Number"  "Preamble" "Repeat" 
*is
 known*:    
name                    yes     (no/yes)     no           yes        only if TIMES still >0
number                  no      yes          no           yes        only if TIMES still >0
nothing                 no      no           yes          no         no

- "No Number" should be choosable for language adaptation, like "Preamble".
- (no/yes) should be a switch like "Speak Number even if Name is Spoken?" 

Got it! Thanks for taking the time to make me understand.

nothing to thank for!!

I have to thank YOU for taking the time and work on this project.. THANK YOU!

and please forgive me my poor english....

Cyrano - no need for apologies. Im sure you are much better at english than I am with Italian! The important thing - is we eventually understand each other. :-)

I have finished a mock up of the exe for the config options being requested. We are awaiting feed back from a tester to see if the mock up meets expectations.

I have decided to seperate the dev effort for autoupdate and the new speak rules - auto update is taking longer than hoped for, and I'd like to see the new speak rules deployed sooner rather than later. This should mean another alpha or beta release of 1.1.4 in the next couple of days.

Please find the attached wiununciator 1.1.4 alpha 4. Testing is needed

Includes logic for speaking only name if desired, and speaking a user defined phrase if no caller id info is available at all.

Test resaults:

- while installing and old winunciator version is running ther is a deadlock situation
- first start after installation window position is off screens (maximise and reset windows position in config resolved the problem)
- when Caller Name not known " (N/A) " is shown and spoken insted of the "No Info:" text
- option to speak only name if known seams to work fine

ps: i would like to wish everybody the nicest hollidays and a happy new year

cyrano wrote:

- while installing and old winunciator version is running ther is a deadlock situation

Known behavior. Should we add text to installer warning people to shut down previous version first?

- first start after installation window position is off screens (maximise and reset windows position in config resolved the problem)

This may have been caused by install deadlock, reported earlier. Not sure - Im glad you found the window size reset button. We added it at the last minute.

- when Caller Name not known " (N/A) " is shown and spoken insted of the "No Info:" text

We have only seen these: "blocked, anonymous, restricted, unknown, unavailable, private", can you say where does the "N/A" come from - is this trunk provided source? From what Superfecta data source does the "N/A" get into the CID field?

- option to speak only name if known seams to work fine

Yay! We got one right!

ps: i would like to wish everybody the nicest hollidays and a happy new year

Thank you - same to you. ;-)

Alpha5 has been posted.
This accepts user definable invalid CID's. Work with SPeech rules.
Please test.

I think the user definable "invalid CIDS" makes a huge difference. So far, in about an hour of testing, all the combinations that I could try worked like they are supposed to. This is a really cool set of options.

Looks like a new bug has been introduced - Pressing repeat when there is no data there yet gets you the preamble by itself. I don't think it's supposed to do that, I think it's supposed to be silent. Not a huge issue though.

This continues to test well for me on our home machine. I think this feature may be complete.
Anyone else?

bsau wrote:

This continues to test well for me on our home machine. I think this feature may be complete. Anyone else?

as far as i can juge the feature seams to work fine. the only thing i would add is a size and position remember to the configuration windows. otherwise i like it very much and thank everybody who workt on it...

THANK YOU

QS: Feature addition complete. Accepted for next build.