[Mithras]

My old Mac has become my jukebox now. It's on almost all the time, and is piped into the stereo that plays throughout the house. I love the setup.

While I'm at it, I thought it would be cool if the computer could announce, via speech synthesis, the origin of phone calls. (e.g. "Attention: Call from William J Clinton in New York, New York")

Does anyone know:
(1) if my built-in modem is capable of Caller ID? (It's a Powerbook Wallstreet)
(2) if not, what modems are?
(3) what Mac software, for OS 9 or, preferably, OS X, is capable of interfacing to a Caller ID modem to extract the information?

[-Q-]

I think it's unlikely that your internal modem will support Caller ID. You found that feature mainly on external modems.

The software you can use is Mac CallerID. It's for OS 9; OS X doesn't seem to have anything available yet...

[ 11-06-2001: Message edited by: -Q- ]

[Mithras]

Thanks.

Jeez, that MacCallerID is an ugly application. Minimum requirement: System 7, and it shows.

Time to turn to that RealBasic tutorial on writing a CallerID app myself, I guess...