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1) Encyclopedia; The FIRST

2) Macworld 89

3) Macintosh Guide Teleflex 89

4) MacWorld PAX 90

5) Macweek MS Mail 90

6) TELEPHONE NEWS Mar 90

7) MacUser 92

8) Voice Processing Feb 92

9) Voice Processing Nov 92

10) Telco's "TFLX User Group"

11) Voice Processing
Lab Report July 94

12) Tidbits Feb 95

13) TFLX News letter 93

14) Cedar Sinai Hospital

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TFLX is a do-it-yourself programmable system that provides a unique route to custom voice-mail applications.

TFLX is a sophisticated programmable single-line voice-mail system with features that go well beyond those of expensive multiline systems. In essence, TFLX merges a telephone line with a computer so the computer can be programmed to automatically handle a variety of telephone-based applications, ranging from simple personalized voice systems for any number of mailboxes to elaborate. multifunction front ends for technical support departments.

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The $1.750 professional-level TFLX package (which includes all the modules) comprises a hardware box. which plugs in to both the serial port of the Mac and a phone line, and the software that controls the box. To run TFLX you need a dedicated Mac with a hard drive and at least 2.5 megabytes of RAM, although 5 to 8 megabytes will make development of your voice-mail applications go much more smoothly.

The version we tested recommended using System 6.0.5 but by the time you read this a System 7-compatible version should be ready. The TFLX box can dial out over the phone line, but it doesn't contain a modem and can't transfer data.

What it can do is digitize and save voice messages; reply with digitized messages you've created, recognize and branch on or save touch-tone inputs, dial out to another phone or PBX system. search a

database file and retrieve information. calculate and branch on text or numeric values saved in variables and perform or modify events at specific times.

So for example, you might use TFLX to develop an order-entry system that takes orders from customers and gives prices, discounts, availability, information, back order and account balances.

The feature that makes all these capabilities possible and that distinguishes TFLX from other voice-mail systems is the picture programming Language. To develop voice-mail applications you select icons that represent different functions and string them together into flowcharts or scripts.

It takes a few days to get proficient with TFLX's Picture Programming Language and to understand some of its more sophisticated features.

TFLX is a hardware/software package that lets you set up your own Mac-powered voic-mail system by stringing together Picture Programming Language icons.

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