lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) (06/23/88)
I'm interested in the capabilities of the VOICE POWER boards. Firstly,
where can one get it fairly inexpensive. I hate spending loads of money
for a machine that is no longer an AT&T product. I've called places they
quote as high as $1300 and as low as $800. Is anyone selling one used?
Or the possibility of trading for an used DOS-73 board? Who knows?
What can it do? Does it come with the software so you can program it
yourself? What kind of programming libraries does it come with and
what is it's limitations? How hard would it be writing your own
software and not spend the money on the voice-mail, answering machine, etc..
software.
Is anyone actually using these things? Let me know. I would like to
hear from you!
-Lenny
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In article <402@icus.UUCP> lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) writes: >I'm interested in the capabilities of the VOICE POWER boards. Firstly, > [...] >quote as high as $1300 and as low as $800. Is anyone selling one used? > >What can it do? Does it come with the software so you can program it >yourself? What kind of programming libraries does it come with and I too was very interested in the Voice Power board. The ability to send e-mail and attach voice piqued my curiosity. The lowest price I found was $708 from Hamilton-Avnet. But that's just for the board. Any programming has to be done in C. If you want a user-friendly programming interface, you must buy the Voice Power Design Tools for a mere $731. The answering machine software for $325 sounds pretty lame. I also am not impressed with the sound quality of the Voice Power Board. In summation, it would be kinda' fun, but I couldn't justify spending $1450 for a home answering machine that would only answer one line. For $900 I can buy a four-line card from Dialogic (if I had a MS-DOS or Xenix machine to plug it in to). If anyone wants to sell me one cheap, please feel free. Jim Gottlieb <jimmy@PIC.UCLA.EDU> or <jimmy@denwa.UUCP>
thad@cup.portal.com (07/02/88)
Lenny, Are the VOICE POWER boards just a voice synthesizer, or something that has an ADC for one to do speech recognition? If you want a voice synthesizer, I have some used Votrax Type 'N Talks that could be connected to a serial port for speech synthesis (sounds good *IF* you use the phoneme codes directly); E-mail me if interested.
lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) (07/04/88)
In article <7038@cup.portal.com> thad@cup.portal.com writes: |>Lenny, |> |>Are the VOICE POWER boards just a voice synthesizer, or something that has |>an ADC for one to do speech recognition? ... The VOICE POWER boards don't do speech recognition, at least as far as I know. It does do audio digitization, therefore using an analog-to-digital converter plus a variety of support chips. Gil Kloepfer (gil@limbic) and I are tinkering with our own ideas of a "homemade-VOICE-POWER" board. -Lenny -- Paper-net: Lenny Tropiano | @-net: lenny@icus.UUCP ICUS Software Systems | !-net: ...att \ PO Box 1 | boulder \ Islip Terrace, NY 11752 | talcott !icus!lenny Vocal-net: (516) 582-5525 [work] | pacbell / (516) 968-8576 [home] | sbcs / Telex-net: 154232428 ICUS | Another-net: attmail!icus!lenny