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VOXWARE - TELEVOX INTERNET TELEPHONY APPLICATION
TeleVox is an exciting new Internet application that lets users make
real-time phone calls anywhere in the world, for only the price of a
local Internet connection. TeleVox delivers significantly higher
voice quality than current Internet telephony devices, and also includes
special features like VoiceFonts, hands-free operation, caller ID and
call blocking.
For additional product information, updates, and upgrades, please visit
Voxware's Web site at http://www.voxware.com
Voxware Means Voice: For the Internet, For Communications
Speech is the oldest form of human communication, but its use in the
computer age has been hampered by limitations on voice compression, and
problems with data transmission. Voxware,Inc. has developed new ways to
overcome these problems.
The Voxware Solution
Voxware's products deliver high quality speech, at the highest
compression rates in the industry. Voxware has also developed solutions
to speech transmission problems like packet loss, network delay and
out-of-sequence conditions, further reducing the choppiness and delay
found with conventional voice compressors. Voxware's products are used
today in an increasing variety of Internet, multimedia and real-time
communications applications. At the core of each of Voxware's
products is its unique MetaVoice coding technology. MetaVoice is a
patent-pending system that creates an accurate, mathematical model of
human speech, rather than the conventional system of compressing the
audio waveform itself. This efficiency means Voxware codecs can deliver
high quality speech in a third the bandwidth of voice codecs on the
market today, and with far less server congestion and CPU overhead.
Voxware's Product Line
Voxware develops and markets two types of products. Its software
development kits are powerful sets of voice tools for WebMasters and
developers of CD-ROMs, games, distance learning applications and other
on-line services. Its Internet applications are geared toward Web
site designers and the general public.
ToolVox is a set of tools for creating and playing sound files on the
Internet. It has two components, an Encoder and Player. The Encoder is
used to create highly compressed voice files,which are added to Web
pages using standard HTML tags. The Player lets users listen to voice on
Web pages, and is available as a Netscape Navigator plug-in, or as a
stand-alone helper application. A free version of ToolVox is available
for downloading. The ToolVox Encoder can also be purchased in a Gold
version, which features improved sound quality, batch compression
and the ability to embed MIDI files, for streaming background music with
voice clips. ToolVox Gold also includes Voxware's VoiceFonts
transformation technology.
Voxware's Voice Development Kit (VDK) provides all the components
required for developers to incorporate Voxware's powerful speech
compression in their applications. The Voice Development Kit includes a
library of functions which support use of the RT24 and RT29HQ codecs to
add high quality voice elements to communications, business, consumer or
game products. Both Windows and Macintosh versions of Voxware's Voice
Development Kit are available for license.
Voxware's Partners
Voxware's diverse product line has produced corporate partnerships with
companies including Apple, AOL, Eidos Technologies, Cardinal Technologies
InterVoice, Microsoft, MPath Interactive, Tribal Voice, and White Pine
Software. Additional strategic partnerships will be announced in the future.
Voxware, MetaVoice, ToolVox, VoiceFonts, TeleVox, RT24 and RT29HQ are
trademarks of Voxware, Inc. All other product names are trademarks of
their respective owners.