[comp.sys.ibm.pc] PC voice mail

eli@lf-server-2.BBN.COM (Steve Elias) (02/09/88)

	Tim Kay posted a review of the Watson voice mail card.

	here are two other voice mail boards/systems available for IBM PCs
	which offer more features at more initial cost...  they are aimed more
	at the small business or entrepeneur...

	Dialogics:  can run 4 lines of voice mail in a PC...
		    features are similar to Watsons.  about $1000.
		    they've been reviewed by a few PC trade rags.
		    they offer "ring-start" (standard telephone) hardware only.

	Brooktrout Technology:  can run 6 lines of voice applications in an AT.
		they will sell you feature-packed voice mail software for $1000,
		or a package that will let you write your own multitasking
		voice systems in PASCAL or C under the Concurrent DOS OS.
		they offer both "ring-start" and DID hardware.  
		each voice board is $750.  in Wellesley, Mass.

dave@westmark.UUCP (Dave Levenson) (02/12/88)

In article <639@morningdew.BBN.COM>, eli@lf-server-2.BBN.COM (Steve Elias) writes:
> 	Dialogics:  can run 4 lines of voice mail in a PC...
> 		    features are similar to Watsons.  about $1000.
> 		    they've been reviewed by a few PC trade rags.
> 		    they offer "ring-start" (standard telephone) hardware only.

The current Dialogic product line includes a DID interface for their
4-channel cards.  This consists of an external box that sits between
their card and the DID trunk.  It makes the received digits
available to the application via the voice card driver.
-- 
Dave Levenson
Westmark, Inc.		A node for news.
Warren, NJ USA
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davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr) (02/17/88)

I have lost the 800 number for Watson, could someone *mail* it to me. TIA.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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