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This may exist, but I didn't find it and don't know where to start.
It often happens that an on-screen document contains a phone number. This may be a web page, a word processor document, a PDF or whatever.
Most phones, as far as I am aware, can use tone-dialling via their microphone - i.e. if
you play the right sequence of tone-pairs to the phone, it will dial the number (assuming its in dial mode).
I'd like to see, therefore, an operating-system-level widget that, when some key combination is pressed, beeps out the numerical component of any text that's currently selected in the active document. Holding your phone up to the computer's speakers would then accomplish dialment.
That is all. This idea terminates here.
javsxcript keyboard; just have the js search fior phone numbers then play them
http://danielstern....io/jukeboxjs/#/demo
[beanangel, Apr 11 2017]
DTMF javascript
https://github.com/substack/touchtone
[beanangel, Apr 11 2017]
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Hmm. Firefox has no suitable appendage, and my OS (OSX) doesn't advertise such a function... |
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Will do. Meanwhile, somebody somewhere ought to invent the computer. All I've got at the moment is a machine that has to be told how to do practically everything. |
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Well, you chose to get married... "Can't help you, Sundance ..." |
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As far as HTML applications go there is already a javascript that produces DTMF (phone tones) in javascript. just have the javascript search for the phone numbers. |
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Yes, but who wants to do that? I just want, in the menu of most applications and in my OS, an item that says "dial selection". |
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My Psion used to do this from its contacts app back in the 1990s |
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More deserving of pity than condemnation, wethinks ... |
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Wouldn't it be quicker optically? No low lever OS patch
necessary. |
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Most phones don't have an optical pickup for dialing
signals. |
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Hang on, this idea is sensible, would save time, is
inexpensive, and has no significant flaws that would
lead to explosions, loss of life, etc. What's going
on? |
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Or if the cellphone isn't used, the intermediary DTMF sounds
are made and contact info recorded. |
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Most work desktop phones are now IP phones. Wouldn't the
computer just remotely dial the the phone. Office noise is a
problem. |
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One of the more important problems in telephony is being
able to distinguish between DTMF and DTF. |
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Sorry, doesn't Skype and other comm tools already do this? |
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I think the problem is that // this idea is sensible, would save time, is inexpensive, and has no significant flaws that would lead to explosions, loss of life, etc.// |
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//Wouldn't it be quicker optically?// Actually that's not a bad idea either. There should be a simple app that can capture a number from the camera - just like barcode scanner apps capture barcodes - and then dial it if the user confirms. |
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That's god to know, [Irma]. |
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"These aren't the codes you're looking for ..." |
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