Have found Phone Dialer but it does not work properly. Does not recognise my
microphone. Help?

"George" <george@discussions.ms.com> wrote in message
news:DE273777-5CEB-4264-A19E-0560BFEC5E33@microsoft.com
> Have found Phone Dialer but it does not work properly. Does not
> recognise my microphone. Help?

You need a voice modem for that to work. And most modems don't have
voice capability. As they are more costly.

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Bill

On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:35:12 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:

>"George" <george@discussions.ms.com> wrote in message
>news:DE273777-5CEB-4264-A19E-0560BFEC5E33@microsoft.com

>> Have found Phone Dialer but it does not work properly. Does not
>> recognise my microphone. Help?
>
>You need a voice modem for that to work. And most modems don't have
>voice capability. As they are more costly.




Not to mention that he may not even have a dial-up modem. Many people
don't these days.

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Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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Follow-up: BillW, do not know if I have a voice modem. Will try to find out
since that may be the problem. Ken, I do have a dial-up modem. It works to
place a call and I can hear the answering party over the computer speakers,
but they cannot hear me. The mike works in other programs.

"Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:

> On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:35:12 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>
> >"George" <george@discussions.ms.com> wrote in message
> >news:DE273777-5CEB-4264-A19E-0560BFEC5E33@microsoft.com
>
> >> Have found Phone Dialer but it does not work properly. Does not
> >> recognise my microphone. Help?
> >
> >You need a voice modem for that to work. And most modems don't have
> >voice capability. As they are more costly.
>
>
>
>
> Not to mention that he may not even have a dial-up modem. Many people
> don't these days.
>
> --
> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
> Please Reply to the Newsgroup
>

That is perfectly normal to hear the voice (dialtone, etc) over the
computer speakers. Although that doesn't mean it is a voice modem. But
it is a better sign than the modem itself just making noises. As that
would be an almost automatic bad sign that it wasn't a voice modem.

Bill

"George" <george@discussions.ms.com> wrote in message
news:4C736773-55BA-47B0-8A1F-5F8CD7BEB638@microsoft.com
> Follow-up: BillW, do not know if I have a voice modem. Will try to
> find out since that may be the problem. Ken, I do have a dial-up
> modem. It works to place a call and I can hear the answering party
> over the computer speakers, but they cannot hear me. The mike works
> in other programs.
>
> "Ken Blake, MVP" wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:35:12 -0500, "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> "George" <george@discussions.ms.com> wrote in message
>>> news:DE273777-5CEB-4264-A19E-0560BFEC5E33@microsoft.com
>>
>>>> Have found Phone Dialer but it does not work properly. Does not
>>>> recognise my microphone. Help?
>>>
>>> You need a voice modem for that to work. And most modems don't have
>>> voice capability. As they are more costly.
>>
>> Not to mention that he may not even have a dial-up modem. Many people
>> don't these days.
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
>> Please Reply to the Newsgroup

Does your modem have a microphone jack?

George wrote:

> Have found Phone Dialer but it does not work properly. Does not recognise my
> microphone. Help?

"Bob I" wrote:

> Does your modem have a microphone jack?
>
> George wrote:Modem is an internal Toshiba Software Modem. Mike jack is external on the Toshiba laptop. Will contact Toshiba to see if modem is voice/data. Thanks.
>
> > Have found Phone Dialer but it does not work properly. Does not recognise my
> > microphone. Help?
>
>

"George" <george@discussions.ms.com> wrote in message
news:86F9275C-8BAE-400F-A550-ACA7BA0B033C@microsoft.com
>>> Have found Phone Dialer but it does not work properly. Does not
>>> recognise my microphone. Help?
>>
>> Modem is an internal Toshiba Software Modem. Mike jack
>> is external on the Toshiba laptop. Will contact Toshiba to see if
>> modem is voice/data. Thanks.

Oh I don't know any laptops that have voice modems. It's not impossible,
just very less likely. They do sell external (both RS2332 and USB) voice
modems though that should work just fine.

--
Bill