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Retrieve E-mail From A Telephone by Randy Ross

(October 7, 1996) -- A new program from Purespeech will let your PC read and
recite e-mail and play back voice mail messages to you over the phone. The
product should save time for those who work at home but travel frequently. 

Juggler, which is expected to ship in the first quarter of 1997 and cost
$149, requires a PC with Windows 95, 16 MB RAM, and a Pentium processor with
MMX capabilities, plus a modem that supports voice features, according to
Russ Wilcox, director PC products at Purespeech. At about the same time, the
vendor expects to ship a version of Juggler that runs on a 100 MHz Pentium PC. 

The product is designed for home offices and small businesses with little
office support staff. It sports a "universal inbox feature," a single inbox
window that stores e-mail, voice mail and fax messages. In a typical
scenario, you might call the system from a phone booth and issue verbal
commands such as "read my e-mail." Then, in a computerized voice, the product
would read to you the e-mail messages stored on the your PC. Juggler is the
first product we know of in this price range offering this feature. In a
product demonstration, the computerized voice was easy to understand when
played back over the PC's speaker system. We did not listen to the
computerized voice from a phone handset; thus, we could not judge whether the
voice would be intelligible over a poor-quality, long-distance connection. 

The product can be set up to periodically check and retrieve e-mail from the
Internet or Compuserve. The product does not work with AOL or LAN-based
e-mail systems. 

Like other products, Juggler also lets you call into your PC to retrieve
voice mail messages. Instead of typing menu selections into the phone keypad,
you can bark out commands to have the product play back and delete voice mail
messages that have been stored on the system. (The product does not work with
PBX-based e-mail systems, typically found in larger offices.)  

The product provides an easy-to-navigate interface that includes an address
book. Using the voice capabilities, you can say someone's name into a
microphone and the system can recognize the name and call the person for you.