Voice Power problems with 3.51m

[Bob Haar CS50]

In article <655 at alfred.UUCP> elliot at alfred.UUCP (Elliot Dierksen) writes:
>In article <7553 at goofy.Apple.COM>, Eric_Smith.FCP_Quality at gateway.qm.apple.com (Eric Smith) writes:
>| I recently purchased a Unix PC with a Voice Power card.
>| I installed the 3.51 foundation set, FixDisk 2.0, and the voice power
>| software (in that order).
>| 
>| Something is amiss.  When I try to use the voice editor (ve) to edit
>| existing messages, like the numbers (:e:v files), it displays the normal
>| stuff.  I tell it to play, and it displays "play", but it doesn't do
>| anything, and the time just stays at zero.
>
>You MUST use the handset to listen to anything from the Voice Power Card!
>It won't play until the handset is off the hook!

You can also have an external powered speaker, audio amp with speaker,
or similar plugged into the audio output jack of the voice power board.
Then it doesn't matter if the phone set is on or off hook. In fact,
you can disconnect the phone line/set entirely.

It wasn't clear (to me) from Eric's original post whether or not
the voice power output had been working before he did the software
install. 

Elliot is correct in that the voice power system does not "play"
through the built-in speaker. You must use either a phone set or
an external audio system of some kind. BTW, a speaker phone box -
the Radio Schlock add-on variety without dialing - works just
fine for me.

		- Bob Haar