Siri virtual operator in a dial phone

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I present to your attention the translation of the article, in which the highly respected Davis D. Remmel made a regular virtual telephone from an ordinary old-fashioned dial-up phone, a bluetooth-headset and Apple's personal assistant Siri from Apple . Using the resulting device, we seem to be transferred to the beginning of the last century, when in order to connect with another subscriber, we had to first communicate with the operator (most often the girl), who made the subscribers switch between each other (a small excursion into the history of this topic).

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Starting in October, when Apple released the iPhone 4S with Siri, I pondered the idea of ​​using the Siri service as a virtual operator. When it comes to automatic calling in a modern phone, this service is surprisingly similar to the age-old operator.
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In my zagashniki both necessary components were found for the realization of this undertaking. Disk phone (was purchased inoperative) and bluetooth headset (only $ 2 on eBay).

So let's go! First, let's analyze this cheap little bluetooth headset.






First, remove this button at the top of the board. Since the headset will be built into the phone, we (button) in this place we do not need.


At the same time, while we pick the inside of the headset, let's move this speaker into the phone's receiver.




The handset has wires connected from the base to its bottom. We can use them to connect a button that turns on the Siri, and to wire them to the charging port.


Now we will place the rectangular bluetooth headset with its microphone in the second part of the phone's handset.


All that remains to be done is to connect the bluetooth headset button to the disk telephone decoder (so that the headset turns on when the disk is rotated). When the number on the disk dialed two white wires are connected, the duration of which depends on the dialed digit: the larger the digit, the longer they are connected. It is for this reason that I dial “1” instead of “0” (as it was in the days of telephone operators) - dialing zero holds the button for too long.




Everything, our virtual operator is ready to work!


In conclusion, a demo video of how it all works.