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From: hlison@bbn.com (Herb Lison)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.multi-media
Subject: Re: Some multi-media hardware questions
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Date: 10 Oct 89 18:05:20 GMT
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In article <8910082247.AA28634@arisia.Xerox.COM> venkat@ARISIA.XEROX.COM (Venkat Rangan) writes:
>(5) Are there audio digitizers  (with less than 4K price tag)that plug into 
>the VME bus of  a Sun Workstation?

I've been working with a voice/telephone product from Natural MicroSystems
called VBX.  It lists for under $800.  Unfortunately, it works only on
the Sun386 workstation, but does have a UNIX driver.  It uses a telephone
for input/output or can take an optional speaker.  It is primarily designed
for voice applications, but can do digitization up to 64kbs.
Voice quality is excellent at 32 kbs.

If you want to call Natural Microsystems you can reach them at
508-655-0700.

Herb Lison