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
TFLX
linked to videophones, MS Mail
By Carolyn Said
Chatsworth, Calif. - Just like the Jetsons, Mac users can have access to videophones
at their finger tips. With TFLXvm from Magnum Software Corp., Macs can send
and receive voicemail and video "snapshots" to and from other TFLX
systems or any videophone.
TFLXvm, available now at $495, is a new "personal edition" of Magnum's
$2,995 TFLX system, which has been on the market for 18 months.
While TFLXvm's videophone capabilities may be out of most users' stratospheres,
Magnum plans to add a more down-to-earth feature this month: the capability
to "read" Microsoft Mail messages, in a computer generated voice,
when the recipient calls in by phone. The integrated system will be demonstrated
in Microsoft's booth at Macworld Expo this week.
TFLXvm's hardware, a box that goes between the Mac and a single-line phone,
digitizes sound and handles telephone chores such as recognizing Touch-Tone
signals. The software deals with
A feature called PAX (picture and audio express) lets the system take, store, merge, edit, add text to, send or receive still pictures. (Unlike the Jetsons' model, current phone lines cannot transmit real-time video images,)
Magnum's customers have used the system for applications as diverse as tech support, market research, doctor referral services, 976 numbers and a dating service, according to Scott McTyre, vice president of development.
Bob Woehrle, president of Hotline Communications Inc. of Louisville, Ky., used TFLX to develop interactive telephone applications, primarily for real estate agents. "We' d be spending a lot more money to do all the things TFLX can do if we used an IBM PC system, even counting the cost of the Mac and hard drive," Woehrle said, "All the things it can do are mind-boggling. It's incredibly easy to use because the [picture programming language] is so self-explanatory."
Magnum's proprietary Picture Programming software, an iconic programming language, lets users customize the software. By linking icons in a flowchart pattern and filling in information in dialog boxes, users can create voice-mail scripts, for example, to route callers through an order-entry system. TFLXvm provides multilevel branching capabilities so the outgoing message can direct callers through various departments.
To contact us send eMail. ScottMcTyre@MCFIII.COM
