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From: mergvax!donnelly@decvax.dec.com (Mark Donnelly)
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Subject: Summary of Comments About "Watson" Voice Processing
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Here are the comments I received about the Voice Processing System " Watson"
Thank you to those who responded.

>I was wondering if any one as experiences or comments about Natural
>Microsystems product called "Waston". It is a PC based voice processing system
>that I was thinking of buying.

I bought one, and haven't had time to do as much with it as I'd hoped.
(That's "Watson", not "Waston", by the way.)

The basic package comes with a menu-based telephone answering
machine and phonemail system.  You have to spend more money if
you want either other applications software or any interface
software to call yourself.  You don't get any hardware
programming info.

The software as supplied supports passwords and automatic dial-out
forwarding of messages.

The hardware works pretty well.  Nicely designed except for two
things that bugged me:  1) It doesn't hang up and get off the
line if you pick up another extension, and there's no way to
detect in software that someone local has picked up.  2) No way
to deal with multiple phone lines.