Etherphone: Voice Applications in Cedar
Polle T. Zellweger, Daniel C. Swinehart
Douglas B. Terry, and Kenneth E. Pier
Computer Science Laboratory
Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
The Etherphone system is an experimental voice management system for exploring the use of voice within personal information systems. Digitized voice is transmitted over an Ethernet local area network. The system consists of microprocessor-based electronic telephones, a voice server, and workstation programs to support voice communications and voice annotation services. From a Cedar workstation, a user can place and receive telephone calls, maintain private telephone directories, and annotate documents with recorded voice. In addition, a commercial text-to-speech synthesizer exists as a server in the Etherphone network, allowing the user and/or workstation programs to 'speak' arbitrary text.
This videotape was shown at the CHI'86 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in April 1986. Running time is 13:35.
References
Ades, S. and Swinehart, D. Voice annotation and editing in a workstation environment, Proc. of AVIOS Voice Applications '86 conference, September 1986, 13-28.
Swinehart, D., Stewart, L., and Ornstein, S. Adding voice to an office computer network. Proc. of GlobeCom '83, IEEE Communications Society Conference, November 1983, 392-402.
Swinehart, D., Terry, D., and Zellweger, P. An experimental environment for voice system development. IEEE Office Knowledge Engineering Newsletter, 1, 1, February 1987, 39-48.