Introduction to PureVoice

What Is QUALCOMM’s PureVoice?

Now you can share your baby’s gurgling sounds with loved ones thousands of miles away, via e-mail. You can send a voice greeting or message to a friend or business associate halfway around the world, over the Internet. In fact, you can share your voice with anyone in the world who has an e-mail account, access to the Internet, and a Macintosh or Windows computer.*

Slow typists have been waiting a long time for the ability to record and send voice messages over e-mail. And if you want to send a message in a language other than the one you can type on your computer, QUALCOMM’s PureVoice offers a fast and easy solution.

QUALCOMM’s PureVoice™ Player-Recorder lets you record and send voice messages with your e-mail, and lets your recipients play back your voice-mail messages on their Macintosh or Windows computer with the click of a mouse.*

PureVoice runs on your Macintosh or Windows machine and features an easy-to-use onscreen VCR-like instrument panel.

Voice messages you compose with PureVoice have extremely high sound quality — very nearly as high as you would experience in a local phone call made over a good-quality home telephone. Yet the voice messages take up very little space on your computer, and travel very fast over e-mail. You send a voice message by attaching it to an e-mail message using your existing e-mail software — in most cases, you do this from PureVoice at the touch of a button! You can also include text in the e-mail message, and attach other files such as graphics and documents. QUALCOMM’s PureVoice is compatible with most e-mail systems, including QUALCOMM’s own Eudora Pro and Eudora Light.

The average computer user comfortably speaks at a rate 10 times faster than he or she can type. There is no need to spell-check a voice message. Voice mail avoids the misinterpretation of moods common in typed e-mail: with voice messages, your recipients don’t have to guess when you’re being wry, funny, or serious. And on the pocketbook side, you can send voice messages without incurring any additional long-distance telephone charges!

In an age in which computers are thought to keep us apart, QUALCOMM’s PureVoice™ Player-Recorder brings us closer together, adding a human touch to communication.

*In order for you to record a voice message using QUALCOMM’s PureVoice, you must be using a Macintosh PowerPC model, or a PC running a 32-bit version of the Windows operating system (Windows 95 or Windows NT). You must also have a sound card with speakers and a microphone. For your recipients to play your messages, they must have the PureVoice Player-Recorder or Plug-in installed on their Macintosh PowerPC or their 32-bit Windows 95/NT machine, with a sound card and speakers. Additionally, if they wish to record a response, they must have a microphone. Your recipients can download the PureVoice Player-Recorder or Plug-In for free from this Web site: <http://www.eudora.com>.

The PureVoice Advantage: Voice Quality

PureVoice voice-messaging software — in Player-Recorder or Plug-In form — is a product of QUALCOMM Incorporated.

QUALCOMM is the developer of CDMA, or “Code Division Multiple Access,” a technology that has become the new North American standard for digital wireless communications, and is fast becoming the world’s premier standard for wireless telephony: CDMA is in use in digital wireless telephone systems and phones around the world.

QUALCOMM is also the maker of Eudora electronic mail software, the world’s number one Internet e-mail software, now in use by over 18 million users in its two versions, Eudora Pro and Eudora Light.

QUALCOMM has combined the need for Internet-based voice messaging with the need for high-quality speech to create PureVoice. PureVoice uses the same state-of-the-art, proprietary voice-encoding technology that QUALCOMM developed for use in its CDMA digital wireless communication systems. That means that a message composed with PureVoice has the same high sound quality as the world’s best wireless telephones. A PureVoice voice message has nearly identical sound quality as that experienced in a local phone call made over a good-to-high-quality home telephone.

For more information on PureVoice™, SmartRate™, CDMA, or QUALCOMM Incorporated, please visit our Web sites, <http://www.eudora.com> and <http://www.qualcomm.com>. Once there, search for the topic of your choice.

For additional product and licensing information on QUALCOMM's PureVoice Player-Recorder and PureVoice Plug-In, please send e-mail to <purevoice@qualcomm.com>.