The Greeting Window:

Greeting windows are used to record greetings that can be used as a default greeting, configured to be used with the AdvAnsweringMachine script or special voice messages played back in your own custom scripts. A greeting window looks like:

The record button is the one with the large red dot. It allows you to create your message. If you are re-recording a greeting which has not been saved, you will be warned before the recording will begin. The play button has a large triangle on it and it will play the greeting you just recorded. While playing or recording, these buttons are not available. However, you can click on the stop button to playing or recording your greeting. The stop button is the one with the large square

Recording can also be terminated if you press a DTMF when recording from the local phone jack, you hang up the phone on the local phone jack or the modem detects a period of silence.

There are some menu items in greeting windows which are only enabled here or have slightly different meanings. They are described in the following table.

Menu ItemDescription
File -> SaveThis menu item will open a save panel the first time you try to save your greeting. Once it is saved, the title of the window will change to match the file name. Further saves will overwrite the saved file.
File -> Save AsThis menu item always gives you a save panel where you can choose where to save the greeting. It will change the title of the window when the file is saved.
Preferences -> Input PortThis is a submenu that lets you choose among the configured serial ports. The selected serial port is the voice modem that will be used for recording the greeting.
Preferences -> Input DeviceThis is a submenu that allows you to select the device to record from. The choices available are:
  • The phone attached to the local telephone jack on the modem. This option is default.
  • The microphone port on the voice modem.
Preferences -> Input EncodingThis is a submenu which contains a list of available encodings that you can use for your greeting. The more bits in the encoding, the higher the sound quality but the more disk space will be used by the greeting.
Preferences -> Output PortThis is a submenu that lets you choose among the configured serial ports. The selected serial port is the voice modem that will be used for playing the greeting.
Preferences -> Output DeviceThis is a submenu that allows you to select the device to play the greeting on. The choices available are:
  • The phone attached to the local telephone jack on the modem.
  • The internal speaker on the voice modem. This option is default

You can drop file on this window and BePhoney will attempt to open them as message windows.