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Pamela: personal assistant for Skype
by Marc Orchant Jul 18th 2005 at 4:44AM
This looks like a great addition for Skype users. Pamela is a "personal assistant" for Skype that offers a bevy of features to handle Skype calls and IM's. Three versions are available. The Basic version is free. The Standard edition is 6 Euros (approximately $7.25 USD). The Professional Edition which records Skype calls, creates XML, and FTP files for podcasts (I'll be testing this for sure) is 17,50 Euros (approx. $21 USD).Here's the Professional Edition feature list:
- 2-way call recording (automatically or manually) and full
support for recording of conference calls (legally sound as Pamela
informs about the call recording automatically!)
- Create
PodCasts (of course we call them PamCasts!) with XML file creation for
RSS feeds and optional automatic FTP upload of audio and XML files
- Recording time can be set from 1 minute to unlimited
- Time scheduling function for activation and deactivation of Pamela
- Personalisation of your Skype contact list: set greeting and chat responses per contact!
- Email forwarding of voice messages (manual or automatic, with full proxy support)
- Enter SkypeAPI commands directly via the Pamela console
- Option to create log files of the SkypeAPI
- Option to send an informative (customisable) chat message that the caller will be forwarded to voicemail
- Optional (customisable) confirmation chat message sent to caller after message recording with duration of left message
- COOL:
Option to have Pamela send a (customisable) chat message to a new
caller when you already are in an active call and don't want to be
disturbed (ringing stops!)
- COOL: Option to have Pamela change your Skype status automatically during a call
- Option to only play a greeting message but not record messages
- Visual notification which voice messages have been played and which ones are new
- Optionally
install the LAME codec and Pamela will automatically generate native
MP3 files for you! (sampling rate and bit rate can be set)
- Optional
visual balloon notification when the status of your Skype contacts
changes (with details about the new status, e.g. contact X is now
“Online”)
- Take a call answered by Pamela back to Skype to speak to the caller
- 32 languages included
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