dtmfdial(1)

dtmfdial1

Dtmf tone generator

Usage

dtmfdial [options] number

Overview

dtmfdial is a DTMF (Dual Tone Multiple Frequency) tone generator. This program generates the same tones taht modern "TouchTone" telephones use to dial. This program could actually be used to dial a phone on any phone system which supports DTMF tones. DTMF dial requires a sound card to work, and is designed to be used as a phone dialer from address book programs.

Options

Duration options:

--tone-time 100
--silent-time 50
--sleep-time 500

Audio output options:

--output-dev /dev/dsp
--use-audio 1
--bufsize 4096
--speed 8000
--bits 8

Audio generation options:

--table-size 256
--volume 100
--left 0
--right 0

Releases

7 releases since Debian 2.1 (Slink); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 2.1–2.2
  2. 3.0–3.1
  3. 4.0–5.0
  4. 6.0

--bits since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --bufsize since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --left since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --output-dev since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --right since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --silent-time since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --sleep-time since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --speed since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --table-size since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --tone-time since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --use-audio since Debian 3.0 (Woody); --volume since Debian 3.0 (Woody).

Author

(C) 1998 Itai Nahshon, <[email protected]>. Use and redistribution are subject to the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. This manpage was written by Michael Vogt <[email protected]> for the Debian Distribution, but may be used by others.

From dtmfdial 0.2+1-2 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.