Phone Dialer on XP

[Guest]

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

 

[BillW50]

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.

 

[Ken Blake, MVP]

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.

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[BillW50]

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

 

[Bob I]

Does your modem have a microphone jack?

 

[Guest]

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.

 

[BillW50]

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.