We've ditched having a land-line in favor of cellphones and VOIP. My wife uses a cellphone and I mostly use VOIP via Linphone's command-line linphonec.

Consequently I've started writing a GNU/Emacs interface to Linphone. I realize that at least one other attempt has been made by I. Poretsky. But Poretsky's version sends commands to linphonec. This is the Wrong Way To Do It™ since linphonec is a command line interface for humans.

The right way is to send commands via linphonecsh. As described: "Linphonecsh is a console utility to send non-blocking commands to an instance of linphonec running in the background."

The initial revision can be yours for the low-low price of:

git clone http://yrk.nfshost.com/repos/emacs-linphone.git/

unrelated appendix:

After listening to this excellent Yale course on classical music I felt ready to tackle slightly more complex classical material: Igor Stravinsky's "Le Sacre du Printemps" and Bach on piano by Hélène Grimaud. For some reason the Stravinsky puts me in mind of "Bitches Brew" (not the Nomeansno cover though).