[Freeswitch-users] Conferencing/Whisper Mode Question

[Siobhan Hamilton]

Michael, thanks very much for your response - and as an aside to anyone out
there - we are looking to hire someone to build a server with these specs
and get it running efficiently for us, if anyone is qualified/interested...



On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Michael Collins <msc at freeswitch.org> wrote:

> Answers inline..
>
> On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Siobhan Hamilton <
> siobhan at pluggedin-tech.com> wrote:
>
>> My apologies for any duplication; I have tried to post this question
>> several times to no avail (at least from my end)....
>>
> Apologies... non-list members are automatically moderated.
>
>>
>> My company is building a VOIP application, and initially were just using a
>> barebones OpenSIPS implementation to host one-on-one calls; however, we want
>> to expand the functionality to conferencing (which, of course, OpenSIPS
>> doesn't handle) and was looking into Freeswitch (the other option being
>> Asterisk).  I've been poring through the docs, and have even set up a test
>> server myself, but there are some very specific things we are looking for
>> that I can't figure out if Freeswitch can do or not.
>>
>> We want to be able to do the following:
>> - Create dynamic, on-the-fly conferences that can remain active even when
>> initiating user leaves
>>
> Yes. In fact, this is the standard behavior of FS conferences
>
>
>> - Within a conference, give users the ability to mute and/or deaf
>> individual users (which I know can already be done with the "relate"
>> command, so that's solved, pretty much)
>>
> Yes, you are correct. The challenge for you will be to create the external
> process that manages users and permissions, so that certain users can
> deaf/mute/kick other users and also process the DTMFs that users dial while
> in the conference.
>
>
>> - Give users the ability to enter a "whisper" mode with another user -
>> where they are holding a private conversation that can only be heard by the
>> two of them
>>
> Yes, this can also be handled with the relate command. The challenge will
> be making sure that the two parties both know that they are in whisper mode
> and you have to decide if you are going to mix the audio from the rest of
> the conference into the whispering parties' private chat. In any case this
> is definitely doable with a little work in an external control
> script/program.
>
> - Allow users to be in two conferences at once; the user would most likely
>> have one muted at any given time so as to hear the other one, but we want
>> them to be able to switch back and forth easily
>>
> This is an interesting one. I'm sure it can be done, I just don't know the
> most elegant way of doing it. A brute-force way of doing it would be to let
> the user be in his own "personal" conference and from there have that
> personal conference make outbound calls to the other conferences. From there
> you could use the mute and/or relate commands to control the flow of audio.
> Again, the big challenge there would be giving the user control over his
> audio and finding a way to give the user audible indications as to which
> conference his audio is flowing to, if at all. FreeSWITCH absolutely has the
> tools to do this. Its conference app is probably the most versatile in the
> telecom world - OSS or proprietary. Coupled with the event socket you can do
> al sorts of interesting things, limited only by your imagination and
> programming skills.
>
> -MC
>
>
>>
>> Could anyone advise me on whether Freeswitch can accomplish these needs,
>> or perhaps what it might take to do so?  We are not averse to doing some
>> customization if we can find the people who know how to make it happen!
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Siobhan Hamilton
>>
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