PC-Telephony; The Complete Guide to Designing, Building and Programming Systems Using Dialogic and Related Hardware (Paperback)

by Bob Edgar (Author)

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Product Description
This book covers Call, Voice and Fax Processing, Voice Recognition, Speech Synthesis, Switching, Conferencing and Telecommunications on PC's. This is the fourth, much-expanded edition of an extraordinarily successful book. Thousands of people have bought this book and built powerful computer telephony systems. By reading this book you will learn how to build PC Telephony Systems that also called Voice Mail, Audiotext, Automated Attendants, Automatic Call Distributors, Interactive Voice Response systems, Predictive Dialers, PBXs, Voice Servers, Voice Client. This is book aimed at the developer of PC-based Computer Telephony systems. That "developer" might be someone who wants to design, build and sell a complete system - a systems integrator, a VAR, a reseller, etc. That "developer" might also be someone who builds part of a system - a voice processing component board, a fax-board, a voice recognition subsystem, a text-to-speech speaker, or programmer. Etc.

Product Details

• Paperback: 769 pages
• Publisher: CMP Books; 4 Sub edition (November 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1578200172
• ISBN-13: 978-1578200177
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,482,910 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars useless, August 21, 2000

By A Customer

PC Telephony is the "manual" of Parity Software's VOS program and is targeted at novice PC telephony programmers. The book describe briefly several Dialogic boards that and the way VOS override C Programming. The book is interesting for those wishing to test or adopt Parity's VOS for programming their Dialogic Boards... BUT recently Parity released its new version of VOS. Spend your money on another book !

15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely inutile, January 24, 2000

By	John Yaron (Peckville, PA USA) - See all my reviews

I bought the '92 copyright, and if that book is indicative of the quality of this one, spend your money elsewhere.

It's like, if I want to setup a Dialogic CT system, I'll just ask the manuf for the manual.

Quite possibly the only book I've seen that conveys absolutely no redeeming information to the reader. I've also never seen a book in this price range use text as the method for constructing illustrations.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Typically awful Bob Edgar authored book, March 6, 2003

By A Customer

Edgar strikes again. If this guy would spend as much time doing his research as he does in self-promotion, this book would be great. Unfortunately, for whatever reason (most likely personality defect) the hype is the thing.

Besides this book having no redeming value, VOS or ADE or whatever his ... software is called is nearly useless in its own right.

How does the saying go, "the bigger the lie, the more people believe it." Edgar thinks if he can tell you how many books he's published on all different aspects of telephony you'll respect his genius. Actually he sinks lower with each lousy book. Though how he could go lower than this one, I don't know. Buy his next piece of trash book to find out.