VOICE MEETING, 4 March 1985
CSL Voice Project
Overview
Motivation
Research Objectives
Research Areas
Etherphone System Overview
Plans
Other PARC Voice Research
Relationship to OSD Voice Prototype Work

Architectural Approach
Design Systems Architecture
    
    
Built Interesting Prototypes
    
    
    
Iterate
Promulgate as Standard
    
    
    

Xerox Architectures
(Standards)
XNS
    
    
Interscript
    
    
Interpress
    
    
Star User Interface
    
    

Xerox Architectures
(Standards)
XNS
    
    
Interscript
    
    
Interpress
    
    
Star User Interface
    
    
InterVoice!
    
    
    

User Interface
UI1
    
    
UI2
UI3

Research Objectives
("products" and "customers")
Prototype Applications
    
    
    
    
Flexible Telephone, Recording Facilities
    
    
    
"InterVoice" Design and Specification
    
    
    
    
Medium shot: Voice File Server in OSD Follow-on
    
Long shot: Possible stand-alone PBX Product
    
    

Research Areas
Taming the Telephone
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
Applications of Recorded Voice
secondary interest: Novel transmission methods
but not: Speech Recognition

Present Capabilities and Status
40+ Users (March 1985)
Call-placement by name from workstation
    
    
Call-placement by name from telephone
    
Call-logging (incoming and outgoing)
Voice messages
    
    

1985 Plans
Specification of "round 1" InterVoice
Design of InterVoice-based prototypes
InterVoice implementation in Cedar 
Prototype implementations as time permits
Declare victory

Relationship to OSD Prototype Work
Stem from common roots    
Same problem areas
Some common hardware and algorithms
Important Extensions
    
    
    
    
    
    

ISL/AISBU Work
Dial-up mail-reading service
Pronouncing business documents
Linguistic approach to improved pronunciation

SCL Work
Interpersonal communications
Remote branch in Portland
Desire to retain working-group ambience