Hi guys,

I was trying to change my music on SpeakMediaPro from my cordless phone via my Pc's skypeIn number and to my surprise  SpeakMediaASR didn't respond to the DTMF as there wasn't any coming through from pstn. Just a short chirp and then silence like it was being filtered and I'm not kidding it appears to be exactly that, it wouldn't be hard to do and it wouldn't really have much effect on speech unless of course you happend to talk like microsoft sam.

It could just be a glitch in the system or it could be due to a certain telco thats taken it upon themselves to thwart a 3rd party who intends to utilize SkypeIn numbers to route calls internationally.  A few months ago there was some report about a company buying up a lot of skypeIn numbers here in NZ and I can only think of one reason you'd do that and Skype offers a really low cost solution to go from pstn to voip.

I'd be happy to be told I'm wrong, I just want the DTMF back so I don't have to go upstairs to change the music!

(SpeakMediaPro the voice activated media player, the beta version utilizes skypeIn so you could control the player remotely from where ever you are via a mobile phone or landline)