Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: mergvax!donnelly@decvax.dec.com (Mark Donnelly) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Summary of Comments About "Watson" Voice Processing Message-ID:Date: 11 Aug 89 13:39:44 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Linotype Co., Hauppauge, NY Lines: 24 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 296, message 3 of 8 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.