AUDIAL(1)

✨ AUDIAL ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the audial page from the General Commands Manual 💅 this lil program is your telephone-tone bestie — it makes touch tones for dialing North American phones, and it can also listen to touch tones and tell you what string they spell out. iconic behavior honestly 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

audial — generate or recognize touch tones for North American telephones 💖

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

audial [-audio servername] [-volume 0-100] [-spacing milliseconds]
[-pause milliseconds] [-duration milliseconds] dialstring

audial -recognize [-microphone] [-gain 0-100] [-time seconds]

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

so basically, the audial program generates touch tones that are suitable for dialing a North American telephone. no cap. 📞

and like, it can also do the reverse?? audial can recognize touch tones and produce the corresponding string. it's giving main character energy in both directions fr fr ✨

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🎀 GENERAL OPTIONS 🎀

these ones work in either mode, dial or recognition, so they're the versatile besties of the group 🫶

• -audio servername — this option specifies the Network Audio System server on which the files should be played. 🌈

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💅 DIAL OPTIONS 💅

these options are the ones you use in dial mode, periodt:

• -volume 0-100 — this option specifies the volume at which the data should be played, as a percentage of the maximum possible volume. the default is 100 percent. 🔥
• -spacing milliseconds — this option specifies the number of milliseconds to wait in between each digit. the default is 100.
• -pause milliseconds — this option specifies the number of milliseconds to wait whenever a comma (,) is used in a dial string. the default is 400.
• -duration milliseconds — this option specifies the duration of each tone in milliseconds. the default is 100. ⭐

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🌼 DIALING STRING 🌼

okay so here's what you're allowed to put in a dialing string, character by character, no gatekeeping:

• 0123456789*# — the corresponding touch tone is generated. literally the whole classic keypad vibe 💖
• abcd — tones representing the 4 "function" keys often found on a keypad are generated. yes bestie, the secret menu keys 👑
• , — a blank tone whose length is specified by the -pause option is generated. that's the lil breather ✨
• Any other characters are ignored. 🙈

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🦄 RECOGNITION OPTIONS 🦄

now for the listening mode, where audial is the one doing the eavesdropping (affectionately):

• -recognize — enables recognition mode. audial will attempt to recognize touch tones from the input device and output the corresponding character. it's a whole detective arc 🔍
• -microphone — use microphone gain levels on the audio input device. if a microphone is plugged into the audio input jack, this option should be used. plug it in, plug it in 🎤
• -gain 0-100 — this option specifies the input gain level. the default is 95.
• -time seconds — this option specifies how long to attempt the recognition. the default is forever. like, literally forever bestie, it will just keep listening 😭💀

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🧚 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES 🧚

the following environment variables are used by audial:

• AUDIOSERVER — this specifies the name of the default audio server to contact if no name is explicitly given on the command line. 🌟
• DISPLAY — this specifies the name of an X Window System display that should be assumed to also have a corresponding Network Audio System server. 🖥️✨

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🍓 SEE ALSO 🍓

• nas(1)

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👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 1993, 1994 Network Computing Devices, Inc.

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💖 AUTHORS 💖

• Greg Renda, Network Computing Devices, Inc.
• Kevin Martin, Network Computing Devices, Inc.

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and that's the whole page, bestie! shoutout to version 1.9.5 of the General Commands Manual — this AUDIAL(1) era is truly unmatched 🌈🎀 slay, go dial something ✨💅