Title :
A low-cost Audio Text system for rural communities
Author :
Egeberg, Roger ; Gammill, Robert ; Rice, David
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., North Dakota State Univ., Fargo, ND, USA
Abstract :
An AudioText system called CEVIS (call extension voice information system) has been provided for use in the county offices of the NDSU Extension Service. It runs on an IBM AT clone machine using two ProCAM cards supporting two phone lines and using about 70 megabytes of hard disk. Since one megabyte can hold about five minutes of digitized speech, the present CEVIS system can hold around five hours of speech in digitized form. A simple stateless user interface and a flexible hierarchical message structure are used. This message structure facilitates simple maintenance and easy expansion of the message base. It also allows use of the system without a printed guide to the messages it contains, by top-down exploration of topics. The system has been successfully tested at five different county extension offices, with a majority of calls coming outside business hours
Keywords :
automatic telephone systems; electronic messaging; office automation; telecommunications computing; 70 MB; Audio Text system; CEVIS; IBM AT clone machine; NDSU Extension Service; ProCAM cards; call extension voice information system; digitized speech; flexible hierarchical message structure; hard disk; message base; rural communities; stateless user interface; telephone answering system; two phone lines; Computer science; Computer science education; Control systems; Information systems; Neodymium; Personnel; Speech; Telephony; Time sharing computer systems; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
WESCANEX '91 'IEEE Western Canada Conference on Computer, Power and Communications Systems in a Rural Environment'
Conference_Location :
Regina, Sask.
Print_ISBN :
0-87942-594-6
DOI :
10.1109/WESCAN.1991.160534
