* In a message originally to All, Tom Brown said:
 > Hi :

 > I'm doing some research into voice response systems.  OS/2
 > seems to be
 > the platform of choice for this type of technology.  Does
 > anyone have
 > any experience with voice response development kits like FAR
 > Voice for
 > OS/2 that they would consider relaying?

 > My experience has been limited.  I have done a few things
 > under DOS
 > with DiaLogic voice boards.  The results were OK, actually,
 > but memory
 > constrained, etc.  Programming in C at the state machine
 > level was not
 > very productive.  A truely interesting product is a library
 > called Now
 > Your Talking for CA Clipper.  All around, not a bad product,
 > it just
 > lacks the reliability necessary for a major voice response
 > project.

 > Ultimately, the product would allow a drag and drop
 > interface, totally
 > under OS/2.  I've seen a couple of solutions that program
 > under
 > Windows, but run under OS/2.  Perhaps someone will build a
 > VisualAge
 > class that will alow this type of functionality.

 
Tom,
  In your response about the voice response on a PC. I have also had ¨very
little experince with it my self, specifically under dos. ¨However I do
have some experince under OS/2 for which I have the ¨libraries for C &
the Vsript languge. I am currently using Products ¨produced by Natural
Microsystems, out of Natick, MA. I have very ¨little experince with c, so I
have not yet begun any serious ¨programming there. I am impressed in the
qaulity, ect about their ¨products, and about the support I ave had up to
this point. I am not ¨at all familiar with Dialogic, so I can't make any
comments about ¨it. I do know for certain that the NMS hardware and
software will ¨allow you to build essentially an 128 port system in a PC,
with the ¨new pentiums, I see no reason why that could not be true, very
¨little disk access is used, which impresses me, compared to the ¨other
experinces with other systems. I relize that this message is ¨nearly 15
days old, I am interested in hearing others experinces ¨dealling with this
application. 
 
  Nolan
 
 
P.S. I have not had this single line system crash yet.
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