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From: biar!trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J Woodhead)
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Subject: Multi-Line Voicemail Boards
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Date: 7 Nov 90 04:31:44 GMT
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A couple of months ago I inquired about voicemail boards for the PC.
Thanks to all that responded.  I ended up getting a Bigmouth board
from Talking Technologies of Alameda, CA [415-522-3800] for about
$225.  This board turns any old PC into a voicemail center, and the
menu-driven software that comes with it (quite powerful) lets you set
up voicemail boxes, phone trees, do voice questionaires, store and
auto-forward voicemail, etc, etc, etc.

I'm quite happy with it, but now I have a slightly more complicated
bit of hardware on my Xmas shopping list.  What I need is a board that
has the following features:

* Can handle four or more calls simultaneously.
* DMTF detection, audio recording and playback.
* PC compatible
* Hopefully buffers incoming and outgoing sampled audio on the board
  so as to reduce the strain on the host machine.
* Good low-level interface software library, in UNIX/XENIX if possible.
* Also, it would be nice if more than one of these boards could be plugged
  into a single PC.

Anyone got any leads on such a beastie?  Oh yeah, if there is a
multiline box that talks to it's host over Ethernet, that would do the
trick too.

Thanks in advance, 


Robert J Woodhead, Biar Games, Inc.  !uunet!biar!trebor trebor@biar.UUCP