Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 12:07:14 -0500 From: richard seltzer Subject: Chat reminder -- demo of Chatterbox, a new voice conferencing platform, Thursday, Nov. 15 BUSINESS ON THE WEB -- Where "word of keystroke" begins Please join us this Thursday, Nov. 15 for a demo and discussion of Chatterbox, a new "voice conferencing" platform, led by George Buys. Peter Carlson, VP of technology with Simple Software, explains: "Chatterbox is not another text chat program and not another voice chat program. Rather it is a complete online conference room integrating telephone quality voice, text chat and a shared presentation space. There has been much turmoil in the voice over IP market, with giants like lipstream and hearme going out of business. Therefore I decided it was high time that someone offer a reasonably priced product that didn't require ongoing monthly commitments -- something that wouldn't leave customers high and dry. The result is a culmination of 15 years experience in TCP/IP, internet and security; and 5+ years experience in VoIP." Chatterbox features include: *High quality voice (selectable down to 2 cans on a string) *Firewall friendly (penetrates 98% of all firewalls including proxies and authentication) *Lightweight client ~200k download (automatic downloadl and installation) *Integrated voice, text chat and browser *File transfer and application/window sharing *Moderator features *Dynamic or Static rooms *Customizable GUI To connect, go to http://download.howudodat.com/cgi-bin/cblaunch.cgi?server=chatterbox.howudod at.com&room=atips or go by way of our chat introduction page http://www.samizdat.com/chat-intro.html We'll be on, as usual, from noon to 1 PM Eastern Standard Time (GMT -5). We'll be using Chatterbox to talk about Chatterbox. The download and launch is automatic and very fast (for IE users). The client only runs on Windows, not Macintosh (some some people have successfully used it with SoftPC or Virtual PC). On Nov. 1, we talked about business applications of voice recognition, with Bill De Stefanis, vp of product development at Lernout*Hauspie (the company that bought Dragon). The edited transcript of that discussion is now available at http://www.samizdat.com/chat203.html The main threads include: -- How Naturally Speaking works -- What can you do with it? -- Limitations -- Macintosh -- Limitations -- multiple voices -- Limitations -- input other than microphone -- Telephone recognition and medical transcription -- Company politics -- who develops what and who sells what? -- Version 6 coming soon -- Future directions of voice recognition technology For links to transcripts of previous sessions, including that one, check http://www.samizdat.com/chat.html Please let me know your suggestions for other guests and topics. I'm looking for interesting and innovative business models, products, and services. seltzer@samizdat.com We meet on Thursdays from noon to 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -4). Transcripts of past chat sessions are available at http://www.samizdat.com/chat.html Please send email with your follow-on questions and comments, and requests to receive email reminders about upcoming sessions. Best wishes. Richard Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com, http://www.samizdat.com Internet marketing consultant www.samizdat.com/consult.html hundreds of books for pennies a piece on CD ROM, see http://www.samizdat.com/readme.html 617-469-2269 _______________________________________________ Cone-cal mailing list Cone-cal@blu.org http://www.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/cone-cal