VoiceTalk.Tioga
Last Edited by: Swinehart, March 3, 1985 3:50:21 pm PST
Utility
Joke -- 33 years to phone man
Picture of linesman
$9000/line Telephone system -- will tell you why
Have bullt telephone system that would retail at around $9000/line, not including the workstation -- my job is to tell you why seemingly sensible people would do that, esp. since it's probably not for the most obvious reaons.
Introduction
Introduction: list remaining items in this outline
Motivation
The Idea
Architectures, developed through ideas then prototyping, resulting in comprehensive protocols/algorithms that can become standards.
Prior Examples
XNS:HDLC, NSMail: TELEX, InterPress/Interscript: WP document formats
XNS
NS Mail
InterPress
InterScript
All required iterations with architecture in mind.
InterVoice
Functionality of the Prototypes Leading to InterVoice
Picture(s) of user interface demonstrating all these capabilities?
Objectives
Objectives
Publications
Prototype Telephony and Stored Voice Applications
Prototype Voice Filing System
Flexible Telephone and Voice Storage System
InterVoice: <standard definition for InterVoice>
Long-shot: Possible development as PBX product.
Spin-offs: Interesting signal-processing and systems problems
Research Areas
Research Areas
Taming the Telephone
Applications of Recorded and Synthesized Voice
Integration with Existing
(Secondary) Voice Transmission Methodologies
(Omitted) Speech Recognition for Control or Transcription
Overview of Etherphone System
People
Originally done by three, plus consultants
After year of keeping it alive, have three plus a consultant to finish design and InterVoice implementation
User Model
User Model cartoon
System Architecture
System Architecture diagram or cartoon
Functions of Components
Etherphone System Components
Etherphone Processor
Voice Digitization, Transmission, Tone Generation
Touch-Pad decoding
Telephone Control Server
Voice File Server
Workstation Tools and Applications
Present Capabilities
Present Capabilities
Basic Telephone Capabilities
Call by Name
From Telephone keypad
Workstation telephone directories
Logs of Incoming/Outgoing Calls
Voice Messages integrated with Grapevine Text Messages
Relations to OSD Work
Similar areas of interest
More emphasis on functionality of telephony
Major emphasis on definition of Intervoice architecture.
Plans
Notes:
History: We've worked in a number of areas where we were not going to be able to be the only game in town (as was true with the copier), but were able to design architectures (and where lucky, standards) that were more comprehensive than anything we saw going on -- such that if industry followed them, both we and competition could benefit -- we because we knew our stuff would find a nice niche. Always have done it the same way -- develop prototoype systems exhibiting the architecture and algorithms, exhibiting novel ideas and high reliability, extract interfaces, protocols, algorithms, and luckily standards.