TELEFLEXAWARD 1988
Articles TFLX:
1)
Encyclopedia;
The FIRST
2) Macworld 89
3) Macintosh Guide Teleflex 89
7) MacUser 92
11)
Voice
Processing
Lab Report July
94
12) Tidbits Feb 95
TFLX keeps working 6.7 EarthQuake
Links
Magnum Software's TFLX combines hardware and software to make a telephone system do everything from basic voice mail to automated order entry and automated outgoing calls. Now Magnum is shipping special software for using video phones with a TFLX setup, and the company is preparing a $500 unit with many of the $2995 TFLX's
Magnum Software is
capabilities
The PAX
(Picture Audio Express) video option transmits slow-scan
video images to a Mac with a TFLX unit from either a stand-alone video phone
or from a Mac Connected to another TFLX unit. PAX can send images from high
resolution and color video phones, but can only edit 98-by-98-pixel images
at 64 levels of gray-that size image takes about five seconds to transmit.
Video telephone technology is still in its infancy. Simple black-and-white
units range from $300 to $600, and image quality is not impressive (on the
98-by-98-pixel screen it seems as if you could grab pixels with a pair of
tweezers)
The PAX option provides additional commands to use in TFLX Creator scripts
for drawing images on the screen, storing them on disk, and managing database
like access to incoming and outgoing images. A user with a simple video telephone
can, for example, log on
also developing a stripped-down $500 unit,
called the TFLX-VM (Voice Mail). It will lack the modem, BRS port (for remote
control of household appliances), and some other features of the full TFLX
and the software will lack support for the variables and equations necessary
for order entry and other complex tasks. But the TFLX-VM will support many
of the TFLX's neat features, in eluding PAX and the ability to convert text
E-mail messages to speech using either Macintalk or a database of several
thousand digitized spoken words. More sophisticated software is also in the
works for the TFLX-VM.
The PAX option is free to registered TFLX owners. For more information contact
Magnum Software in Chatsworth, California, at 818-701-5051.
-Mary Margaret Lewis
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