lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) (04/24/89)
** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE **
Two (2) VOICE POWER boards for the UNIX PC 3B1/7300 computer
These boards will give your UNIX PC a new face lift! I have one in my
machine (for which I've had many hours of enjoyment), and I'm selling two
others to any interested party on the net. These boards both have the latest
release of the firmware, Release 2.1 EPROMS. Both work perfectly, I
personally tested them in my machine. [Nothing like having three VOICE POWER
boards in your machine at once :-)]
What can this board do for you? Well the possibilities are endless, but
basically the board does sound digitization, speech synthesis, and telephone
operations. The amazing thing about the board is that it can record sound
(a voice, lets say) and save it as a UNIX file. Then you can take that
digitized voice and play it back. You can also use any other UNIX command
to manipulate that file. (eg. uucp the file to a friend so he can listen
to it too, cp the file to a floppy for posterity, etc.) There is also a voice
editor, that will allow you to insert and delete parts of that sound.
The board has two RJ11 jacks (one for line, and one for set) and two mini
jacks for audio in and audio out. You can plug your CD player, for example,
and record your favorite music selection as digitized sound (I've done this,
it's loads of fun ...)
For more practical people, they can use it for an answering machine, call
routing, and voice mail. Trust me once you have the board you'll be
thinking of all kinds of weird uses you can use the board for. There is
also software that allows for text-to-speech conversion (ie. you type
in a word, and the Voice Power board synthesizes the word and speaks it!)
The board has some other nice features, like you can have it answer the
phone, play a "canned" message like those ...
"Welcome to the AT&T National System Support Hotline, if you
are on a touch tone phone and you are calling about an
existing ticket, press [1] ... "
The board can decode which touch tone was pressed and you can pick an
action (in your software) on how you want to handle it.
Both boards come with the following System Software:
Voice Power: Diagnostics REL 2.0 (one disk)
Voice Power: System Software REL 2.1 (two disks)
Voice Power: VDA REL 1.1 (one disk)
I'll even throw in some other Voice Power Software packages ...
Voice Power: Answering Machine REL 2.0 (two disks)
(Software package will make your UNIX pc an answering machine)
Voice Power: Electronic Mail REL 1.0 (one disk)
(Software package will allow you to send voice mail to others
with a Voice Power board, and also allows you to listen
to your Answering Machine Messages)
Voice Power: Voice Design Tool (one disk)
(Software package will allow you to write simplistic Voice
Power applications using a "4th-generation type" menuing
system. VDT then will create "C" code for you to compile
and modify)
Voice Power: Developer's Package (one disk)
(This disk provides the necessary include files, archive
libraries, and utility programs to write your own Voice Power
applications).
Now for the "bottom line" ... what's this all going to cost me? (you must
be saying by now) ...
For anyone wanting to buy *BOTH* Voice Power boards
together, they can have the package for: $1000.00 COD
I'll also break up the pair for anyone wanting just
one for: $550/each COD
If you are interested, since you don't have a voice power board now you
can't send me voice mail, but you can send me electronic mail! For faster
response give me a telephone call ... I'm going to be away until Wednesday,
so wait for telephone calls until then. If you E-mail me, make sure you
include your telephone number so I can return the call!
-Lenny
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ICUS Software Systems -- PO Box 1; Islip Terrace, NY 11752friedl@vsi.COM (Stephen J. Friedl) (04/25/89)
In article <680@icus.islp.ny.us>, lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes: > ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** > > Two (2) VOICE POWER boards for the UNIX PC 3B1/7300 computer > > These boards will give your UNIX PC a new face lift! If this Voice Power board is anything like the VP4 available for the 6386, it is *totally cool*. The development team that put this package did a complete job with extensive documentation, a C library for accessing everything, and great little programs callable from the command line (we wrote a trivial answering machine in about 30 lines of shell scripts). We really like the voice editor, and you could probably do very funny things with a Ronald Reagan speech :-). If you're thinking about getting into voice technology, this is probably a *great* way to go. Steve P.S. - No connection with the seller, it's just a great package. -- Stephen J. Friedl / V-Systems, Inc. / Santa Ana, CA / +1 714 545 6442 3B2-kind-of-guy / friedl@vsi.com / {attmail, uunet, etc}!vsi!friedl "I'm making a fashion statement: I'm saying I don't know how to dress." - me
stevens@hsi.UUCP (Richard Stevens) (04/25/89)
In article <680@icus.islp.ny.us>, lenny@icus.islp.ny.us (Lenny Tropiano) writes: > ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** ** FOR SALE ** > > Two (2) VOICE POWER boards for the UNIX PC 3B1/7300 computer Well, we just got a new phone system at work a few weeks ago - an AT&T System 25. Pretty nice system, especially compared to the old Horizon system we had earlier. Guess what came with the system - a 3b1 !! 2 Mb memory and 67 Mb disk. I was asking the installers exactly what the 3b1 is used for (we can change extension numbers and the like through an operator's menu using it) but they weren't too sure. It does have the Voice Power hardware, and I'd guess from Lenny's posting that it is used for our voice mail system. I think the 3b1 also does the call accounting statistics. I rumaged through the diskettes that came with it, but not even the phone company had newer O.S. software. And, of course, if didn't handle the daylight conversion 3 weeks ago, so we had to change it by hand, to get the right time stamp on the voice mail messages. I knew there was a Unix system in there somewhere, when you hear the voice say "login incorrect" when you enter the wrong password for your voice mail box. Does anyone have any references to additional information on how the Voice Power system works ? I'd guess there must have been papers published somewhere on it ? Did AT&T design the Voice Power hardware themselves for the 3b1 ? Is the system on the 6386 similar ? It's nice to know a phone company is using 3b1's for customer applications - maybe that's why there's still some limited support for the system. Richard Stevens Health Systems International, New Haven, CT stevens@hsi.com ... { uunet | yale } ! hsi ! stevens