 Phone Pad Help Contents

Introduction

Dialing

Receiving a Call

Recording a Conversation

Menu Commands

File Menu

Mixer Menu

Help Menu


Introduction

The Phone Pad application has the same basic features than a regular telephone plus some extended features:

Basic Features

The TeleSound allows you to:

Notice incoming calls by flashing the window title and ringing.  The ringing sound is the playback of a file defined in the Config program, and is the same sound for all TeleSound applications.

Use the TeleSound as a standard telephone, dialing directly from the Phone Pad with the mouse or the keyboard.

Answer a second incoming call (provided that your phone line is equipped with Call-Waiting feature) by clicking on the Flash option button.

Extended Features

Selects the dialing method (tone or pulse).

Quick redials any of the last 8 numbers dialed.

Records your phone conversations and save them as a Wave (*.WAV) file.

Plays through the phone line any pre-recorded message, or any WAVE or MIDI file as background music or sound.

Use your sound cards Mixer to control the voice level from the microphone and to the speakers.


Dialing

Manual Dial

Pick up the phone by clicking on the Phone button.

Dial the number you want to call.  Use your mouse to click on the number buttons.  The call will be in progress as soon as you finish dialing.

If the called number is busy or nobody answers, hang up by clicking on the Hang-up button.

Automatic Dial

Enter the number in the Numeric Display.  To do so, click on the numbers in the numeric keypad with your mouse pointer.

When you have finished entering the numbers, click on the Dial button,

The Phone Pad will dial the number currently displayed in the Numeric Display.

The Dialing Window (or Call Status dialog box) will appear on your screen.

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Dialing Window


Dialing Window
Dialing Window (or Call Status Dialog Box)

Whenever you use the Automatic Dialing procedure, the Call Status dialog box is displayed.  If the number you called is busy, the system will retry the call after the Time-Out specified in the Config application.

While the Dialing Window or Call Status Dialog Box is displayed on the screen you can select one of the following choices:

- Click on the Next button to try to redial immediately (you dont have to wait the length of time specified in the Config application).

- Click on the Cancel button to cancel the process and return to the Phone Pad

- Click on the Answered button if called party picks up the phone.  When you press this button, the application takes you back to the Phone Pad screen without disconnecting the communication.  From this screen you can then utilize any of the Phone Pads features (i.e., record the conversation, play background music, etc.)

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Dialing


Receiving a Call

When the phone rings (an incoming call is detected, the phone pad becomes the active window or icon (if minimized), and the word Ringing appears on the window's caption.  If you want to answer the call, just press the Phone button and start talking.

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Talking

Recording a Conversation


Talking

Whenever your click on the Phone button, the Phone Pad switches to Talking Mode.

In the Talking Mode the phone line is open and the recording source for your sound card is the Line-In channel.  As a result, any recording involves not only the microphone, but also the telephone line.

While in the Talking Mode you can start the Mixer application for your sound card by clicking on the Mixer menu.  Once the mixer application is displayed, you can adjust the volumes settings.

In some sound cards, the volume level  is louder if the card is recording.  If you want to talk in the loud mode (as if the sound card was recording), just click on the Hi button and the system will simulate recording mode.

Note:  The Hi button is available only for some sound cards.  If your sound card does not support this feature --recording louder-- your Phone Pad panel will NOT display the Hi/Low button.  Any playing or recording of a sound file automatically stops the Hi setting.  You must click on the Hi button again to go back to the Hi volume setting after playing a sound file.

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Recording a Conversation

Mixer Menu


Recording

The Phone Pad allows you to record WAVE sound files.  If the Phone button is pressed, any recording involves the phone line and any conversation is recorded.  If the Phone button is not pressed, the recording is done from the microphone only.

To start a new recording, click on the New button; then click on the Record button in the tape panel.

To stop recording, click on the Stop button.

To save the recorded file, click on the Save As button.

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Tape Panel


Tape Panel

The Tape Panel allows you to play and record sound files.

To play a file showing in the file list double click on the filename and then click on the Play button.  Alternatively, click on the filename in the play list and then press the space bar to select it; then click on the Play button.

The Tape Panel controls are:

Start

Rewinds the current (or selected) file to the beginning or start point.

Play

Plays the current or selected file.

Pause

Holds playing or recording of a file.  To resume playing or recording, just click on the Pause button again.

Stop

Terminates playing or recording of a file.

Record

Allows you to record a new sound file.  To enable this button, you must click on the New button first.

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Storing Sound Files


Low / Hi
Low / Hi Button

Note:  This button is only available for some ESS based sound cards.  If this buttons does not appear on your screen is because your sound card does not support this feature.

The Low / Hi  button is used to set the volume level.  On some ESS based sound cards the volume from the line is low if the system is not recording; by clicking on this button the system simulates recording.


Remove
Remove Button

Use this button to remove a sound file from the list.  However, the file is NOT deleted from the disk.


Delete
Delete Button

Click on this button to remove a sound file from the list and delete it from the disk .


Add
Add Button

Adds an existing sound file to the list.  When you click on this button, a Open file dialog box appears allowing you to select the file you want to add.


Save As
Save As Button

Click on this button after you have recorded a new message or when you want to save any file to the disk.  When you click on this button Save File As window appears on the screen and allows you to select the path and file name


New
New Button

Click on this button to create a sound file with the tape panel.  After you click on the New button, the tape panel is activated and the name Untitled.wav is assigned to the new file.

Use the Save As button after you have recorded the new message/file.

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Tape Panel

Save As


Messages List
Files List

The Files List contains the list of sound files that can be played just by double-clicking on them.  Any recorded conversations are also added to the file list.  You can also add your own sound files to the list by using the Add button.

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Remove

Delete

Add

Save As

New

Tape Panel


Prefix

A Prefix is a number dialed before dialing any number you entered in the Numeric Display.

Note:  The Prefix is dialed only with automatic dial.

The Prefix can be used if you have to dial a specific number to get an outside line.  If you need to include a default Prefix (available to all TeleSound applications), do so in the Config application.

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Dialing


Number Display
Number Display (or Numeric Display)

The Numeric or Number Display is the box where all the digits to be dialed (or recently dialed) appear.  This display allows you to edit the number you are about to dial automatically, and displays the numbers you dial manually.

After a number has been dialed it is kept in the Number Display list until other 9 numbers had been dialed.  This allow you to re-dial any of the last 8 numbers previously dialed.

To display the Number Display List, click on the down arrow at the right of the box.  To select any of the numbers displayed, just click on it.

To dial the selected number (which is also the number now in the display box), just click on the Dial button.

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Dialing


Phone
Phone Button

The phone button is used to answer/hang-up the phone.

To answer an incoming call, just click o this button.

To hang-up the phone (end a conversation), just click on this button again.

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Dialing

Talking


Tone / Pulse

This fields allow you to select the dialing type regardless of what is selected as default in the Config application.  The default selection will show up as selected every time you load up the Phone Pad application, but you can temporarily overwrite it by clicking on the desired dialing type.

For example, if your phone line supports pulse dialing only (and that is the selection in the Config application), you can temporarily switch to Tone during a conversation if you want to activate a tone controlled phone system that you have just called to.

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Dialing


Digits

The digit buttons (Numeric keypad) are used for manual dialing or for entering a numbers using your mouse.  When the phone is picked up clicking on any digit button dials the digit immediately; if the line is not open, clicking on a digit number adds the digit to the Number Display.

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Dialing

Tone / Pulse


Clear Button

Use the clear button to delete the contents of the Number Display box .


Paste Button

Use this button to copy the contents of the clipboard into the Number Display box.

For example, if you have a phone number written in a letter that you created with your Windows™ word processor and you want to dial that number, open the letter using your word processor application, highlight the phone number you want to dial and copy it to the clipboard (select Copy from the Edit menu your word processor or press Ctrl+Ins); then switch to the Phone Pad application and click on the Paste button.  The number you selected from your letter will appear on the Number Display box.  Now you can just click on the Dial button to call that number.


Pause
Pause Button

The Pause button inserts a delay in the dialing process.  Such delay is presented as a comma (" , ") in the Number Display box.

Delays are sometimes needed if you need to dial a prefix and then wait a second for a dial tone.


File Menu

The File menu contains all the necessary instructions to handle sound files (both MIDI and Wave) in the Phone Pad.  Some of the commands in the File menu also have an equivalent button in the Phone Pads panel.  The File menu items are:

New (same as New button)

Creates a new sound file (MIDI or Wave).

Add Existing File (same as Add button)

Select this option when you want to append an existing file to the Play List.

Save

Saves the current sound file.  Current sound file is the one loaded on the tape panel.

Save As (same as Save As button)

Save the current sound file as a different file (i.e., in a different format, into a different subdirectory, or with a different name).  Current sound file is the one loaded on the tape panel.

Delete (same as Delete button)

Deletes the current sound file from the Play List and from the disk.

Remove (same as Remove button)

Removes the current sound file from the Play List.

Exit

Terminates the Phone Pad session.


Messages Menu
Mixer Menu

The Mixer application is supplied with your sound card and is the program that controls the all volume levels for both, input and output, recording and playback.  Each sound card manufacturer supplies a different Mixer application.  For that reason, you must install you sound card before installing your TeleSound, and you must read your sound cards documentation to find out the name and location of the Mixer application.

If your sound card is NOT a stereo device (monaural), it may not support volume control and this option will not apply to you.

Open Mixer

Starts the Mixer application.  If no mixer application is defined was defined in the Config application, you will be prompted to select a Mixer application.

To change the default Mixer application please refer to the Config program or the Mixer Control program.

Save Mixer

Saves the current Mixer values.  These values will be used whenever the phone line is open.

Fine tune the volumes of your sound card by adjusting the settings in the Mixer application while talking or dialing with the TeleSound.  When you fine volume levels that are satisfactory for you, select the Save Mixer option.  The next you use the TeleSound, the settings saved for the Mixer will be restored and no re-adjustment will be necessary.

Note:  The Mixer values saved also apply to the Answering Machine application.


Help
Help Menu

Allows you to access the Help files (such as this one) containing information about the Phone Pad.  Alternatively, you can press the F1 key on your keyboard.