Groupware and Hyper-/Multimedia

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2 total messages Started by Olav Behrens Wed, 28 Oct 1992 14:40

Author: Olav Behrens
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 14:40

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Hello out there!

As a research assistant at the university of Paderborn (Germany) I am 
interested in the combination of Groupware and Hyper-/Multimedia (this 
should become my thesis at last).

At our team we use Lotus Notes as a groupware-platform and I think we have a 
lot of know-how around this product.

Some ideas for prototypes are:

1.) Your answering-machine is running anywhere on a computer (BigmOuth, 
Zyxel Modem) and the recorded messages will be transfered to Notes-E-Mail (
OLE-Objects under Windows). So I will be informed about incomming phone-
calls via E-Mail at my workplace.

2.) You can call your Notes-E-Mail-Server by phone and then get your E-Mail 
read to you (text to speech synthesis). The phone-side would be managed by 
eg. BigmOuth, the synthesis could be done by Soundblaster or something like 
that?

I would appreciate any comments/ideas/fantasy/literature/... about the 
mentioned field of interest.

Greetings! Olav
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* Olav M. Behrens               Tel. ++49 - 5251 - 60 3870                  *                             
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Re: Groupware and Hyper-/Multimedia

Author: Marc Fleischmann
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 21:06

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In article 0@uni-paderborn.de, Behrens@uni-paderborn.de (Olav Behrens) writes:
>2.) You can call your Notes-E-Mail-Server by phone and then get your E-Mail 
>read to you (text to speech synthesis). The phone-side would be managed by 
>eg. BigmOuth, the synthesis could be done by Soundblaster or something like 
>that?
>

In 1983 or 84 while at DEC we did this using the DECtalk system.  In addition, for
a number of people who had very long commutes, we would write their email to 
cassette for them to listen while in their car.  They would record reply's on
cassette and their secretary's would post their responses.

The hardest part was wading through the headers to eliminate the garbage.

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Marc Fleischmann - Information Integration
Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc. - R&D Division
Palo Alto CA 94304-1191 (415) 354-5693
Internet: marc@stc.lockheed.com

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