[Malvern] Meeting and Anothre Brain Fizz

[Ian Pascoe]

Geoff - are you OK for this(?) Wednesday?  Can anyone give me a lift please?

Been doing a bit of googling this afternoon.  Has anyone come across any
software that will turn your PC into an answering machine, but will also
allow what is termed a voice form to be set up.

A voice form is where you are asked to provide a series of set details ie
for an answering machine you would have the following type of questions:

After the tome please say your name
Please enter the number you wish to be contacted on followed by *

I am sure that you have all come across this type of thing before.  I have
found 2 bendors that do this type of thing but only at a corporate level and
not for "home use".  I know there are various managed solutions but I don't
want to go there.

This then leads onto a second arena whereby once you have the form completed
it is then passed to voice recognition software which can then translate it
into a format so that it could be added to, for instance, a database.

As you have probably guessed I have a very particular application in mind.
This is to set up a PC so that people could dial into it and leave messages
regarding late and cancelled train services.  This would then get compiled
into a database, and printed reports got from it.

Any comments appreciated even those to totally "dis" it.

Ian
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