Speakerphone wiring question

[marcus132]

I've got a Boris skull that I have done all of the good hacks on (removed speaker, added phono plug and fine-tuning capacitor).

For the past few years I've been using him via Internet (http://hauntforum.com/showthread.php?t=9098) at my party.

The system works reasonably well, but unfortunately the webcam audio codecs are based on focusing on a single voice, and the conference always fails when there are many people in the room talking at once (or at least that's our theory).

For next year, I'd like to go old school and just use a telephone for the audio portion (and keep the webcam for video only).

I want to wire a speakerphone so that the phone's microphone works normally, but instead of using the phone's speaker, it plays the incoming audio through my Boris and his powered computer speakers.

Is this as easy as clipping out the speaker from the phone and wiring a phono jack to those cables? I assume it's not, but hey, it never hurts to dream.

Thanks for your help, Haunt Folks! :jol:

[scream1973]

Look at some of the softphone VoIP solutions. I can do exactly this with my Cisco softphone on the laptop..

I can direct the input from a headset /phone whatever and have the output come otu via speakers etc..

Potentially Skype or similar?

[marcus132]

Potentially Skype or similar?

Skype is what we were using. In our one-on-one tests before the party it worked flawlessly, but when we had a room full of people, the audio got so bogged down that it would start to kill the video as well.

We think it was Skype trying too hard to find order in the audio chaos and killing itself in the process.

That's why I want to try it with a good old fashioned telephone instead. All that does is listen. It doesn't think too hard. :jol:

[Scottzilla]

Most speaker phones these days have a regular amplifier and speaker in them, so you shouldn't have any problem clipping the internal speaker and hooking it to another speaker or amplifier.