Using Visual Voice for Win32 (for Windows NT, from $795; for Windows 95, from $495), you can create applications -- including fax-on-demand, interactive voice response, and voice mail -- that can interact with most data sources and networks. The program provides high-level interfaces to functions such as answering inbound calls, placing outbound calls, prompting for Touch-Tone input once calls are established, recording and playing back voice files, sending and receiving faxes, and integrating with a PBX to perform call-control functions. The Voice Workbench tool visually defines the telephony components of an application and generates the corresponding application logic. A 32-bit DLL interface allows 32-bit development environments that support DLLs to take advantage of Visual Basic's tel
ephony features.
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