A Voice Capable Remote Information Presentation System
Senior Project: 1994-1995
Ken Brookman, Jun Cha, David Edwards and Patrick Mahony
This project involved the development of a software package that demonstrates
the usefulness of VoiceSpan. VoiceSpan, integrated into many new modems, allows
both a data stream and voice to be transmitted over one phone line
simultaneously. The project provided a front end, running on a PC, and a back
end, running on an AT&T CONVERSANT. The front end provided a generic user
interface for the presentation of a variety of styles of selection (such as
menus) and "viewing" (such as text, images, and voice) mechanisms that could be
used to navigate an arbitrary network of information. The back end provided a
mechanism to create the network of information and describe it with a simple
scripting language. An execution engine would then interact with the front end
over ordinary phone lines to allow the user to navigate the network.
One way that this might be used is for the customer of a real estate agent to
be provided with the generic front end. The customer would start the
application, connect to the appropriate system, and then make selections to
indicate they would like to see a particular home. They would then make choices
to see various rooms of the house, while hearing voice descriptions of them.
The software was written in C and C++, running under Windows on the PC side,
and UNIX on the CONVERSANT side.
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