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- Subject: Press Release - DECvoice Builder - FYI 1
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- Subject: Press Release - DECvoice Builder - FYI
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- Norman Booth
- Image, Voice & Video Group
- (603) 884-0360
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- Voice '92 Booth #200
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- DIGITAL ANNOUNCES DECvoiceBuilder V1.1 SOFTWARE
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- Graphical User Interface Speeds
- Building of Voice Response Applications
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- ATLANTA, GA. -- November 11, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation
- today announced DECvoiceBuilder V1.1 for OpenVMS application
- development software for Digital's DECvoice voice response system.
- DECvoiceBuilder software is an enhanced voice application generator
- featuring the DECwindows/Motif intuitive graphical user interface
- (GUI) for its multiline DECvoice platform. Digital showcased the
- DECvoiceBuilder system here at the Voice '92 exposition.
- Diane Knight, Marketing Manager for DECvoiceBuilder software,
- stated, "DECvoiceBuilder software now provides a simple, powerful
- way for users to develop voice response applications. It offers our
- customers a truly flexible, investment enhancing voice application
- system. In addition, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) can
- now use DECvoiceBuilder software in their own applications to
- provide their customers with a complete, integrated voice response
- system."
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- DECvoiceBuilder V1.1 software enhancements include:
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- o FAX support - Voice applications can now be developed to FAX
- information, providing automatic data confirmation and
- increased services.
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- o User Code Object - Users can now write a function or
- subroutine using DECvoiceBuilder software and then call it
- via an object to speed and simplify application development.
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- o Cut and Paste - Users can now select multiple icons in the
- application flow that can then be deleted, copied to another
- area, or later retrieved, thus reducing the time to develop
- customized applications.
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- o Voice Message Control - Using common Touch-Tone telephone
- keys, users can now pause, resume, position to the start, and
- position to the end during a voice message operation.
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- FLEXIBLE, POWERFUL VOICE APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT
- DECvoiceBuilder software combines the three voice technologies
- of digitized voice, speech synthesis, and voice recognition on a
- single platform. This level of compatibility and flexibility
- enables users to integrate DECvoiceBuilder applications with their
- existing DECvoice applications, thereby protecting their current
- investments in software and training.
- DECvoiceBuilder software enables users without expert skills in
- computer programming and telephony to build new voice response
- applications or modify existing DECvoiceBuilder applications quickly
- and easily. A user merely connects graphical icons on a terminal
- screen to produce an application flow. Each icon represents a
- function or step in the application. The user then records the
- necessary voice segments using either a telephone, a microphone, or
- a professional recorded tape. The resulting voice application is
- automatically generated by DECVoiceBuilder software.
- This new software ensures completeness of the voice application
- by providing test functions, which include testing with or without
- voice. In addition, it enables users to monitor deployed
- applications quickly and easily by displaying various statistical
- and status reports.
- The DECvoiceBuilder product consists of four components -- the
- Application Editor, the Recording Studio, the Administrator, and the
- Run-Time Library.
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- DECvoiceBuilder Software is also available in two packages, the
- Production Environment package, which includes all four components,
- and the Run-Time Environment package, which includes only the
- components required to deploy a produced and tested voice
- application.
- DECvoiceBuilder software works in the DECwindows Motif
- graphical user interface, a superior windowing environment that
- makes building voice applications with the GUI fast and easy. It
- cuts development and maintenance costs significantly and allows
- problems to be corrected quickly.
- The software also requires DECvoice hardware and software, VAX
- C software, VAX OpenVMS operating system, and a VAX computer. VAX
- Rdb relational database software is optional for applications
- requiring links into databases.
- DECvoiceBuilder V1.1 Software is available in February 1993
- with prices beginning at $6,800.
- Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard,
- Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked
- computer systems, software and services. Digital pioneered and
- leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor
- computing. Digital and its business partners deliver the power to
- use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center -
- in open information environments.
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- Note to Editors: Digital, DECvoice, DECvoiceBuilder, DECwindows,
- OpenVMS, VAX, Rdb, and the Digital logo are
- trademarks of Digital Equipment Corporation.
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- Touch-Tone is a registered trademark of American
- Telephone & Telegraph Co.
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- Motif is a trademark of Open Software Foundation.
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- CORP/93/855
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