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TeleVoce's PC-Based VoIP Virtual Central Office Technology Platform Goes Global
The First TeleVoce-Connected Personalizable Consumer VoIP Devices To be Showcased in Five Booths at CES 2006
See TeleVoce at CES 2006 at the Consumer VoIP TechZone, Booth 71837P, Sands
SAN JOSE, Calif. - 3 January 2006
TeleVoce(tm) Inc., an Internet telephony command and control technology provider, today announced that the first TeleVoce-Connected(tm) personalizable consumer VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) devices will be unveiled at five booths at the industry-leading Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, NV, from 5-8 January 2006. Global manufacturing partners, AUVI Technologies (South Hall 4/35652), Northwestern Bell/Unical Enterprises Inc. (Central Hall/8253), Multi-Link Inc. (Sands/71837EE) and Rota America Inc. (Sands/70322), along with TeleVoce (Sands/71837P), will be demonstrating a new class of award-winning software-upgradeable VoIP adapters and cordless phones that offer more choice and control to users of Internet telephony services. Auvi's TeleVoce-Connected PHIP100 VoIP-enabled cordless speakerphone with webcam has been honored with a coveted 2006 CES Innovations award. The TeleVoce-Connected VoIP Technology Platform has been recognized by Internet Telephony magazine as a 2005 "Product of the Year."
TeleVoce provides desktop command and control technology to empower consumers and small office/home office (SOHO) users of Internet telephony. The TeleVoce-Connected VoIP technology platform provides a patented hardware interface to a personal computer (PC) along with a proprietary software program that is designed to allow personalized control of one's VoIP service provider such as Skype, Google, MSN, Yahoo, AOL or SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) vendors.
Ed Prentice, president and CEO of TeleVoce said, "TeleVoce's technology is a catalyst for the inevitable shift of telephony control from the telco central office to consumers. Like the revolution from centralized to distributed computing, we add the missing link that bridges the PC and Internet telephony worlds. This unique multi-provider and multimodal approach allows consumers to truly benefit from the PC-based VoIP revolution. TeleVoce is all about bringing freedom to home and SOHO users of Internet telephony, as well as offering our manufacturing partners value-added VoIP capability in a volatile yet exploding market."
TeleVoce-Connected technology uniquely enables:
- PC-to-phone VoIP adapters for Skype and other providers that enable any standard cordless or cell phone to transparently access VoIP
- PC-to-phone VoIP gateway adapters that enable call bridging from the PC to attached Telco lines and vice versa, for international calling from cell phones (bypassing cellular international rates), and enabling landline 911 calls
- Multi-provider VoIP voice messaging software
- VoIP to cell phone forwarding via users' own PSTN telephone line
- Incoming ordinary PSTN call to VoIP forwarding.
- Multi-provider VoIP multimodal alert integration using IVR (Interactive Voice Response)
- Personalization through software downloads through TeleVoce or its partners.
- Open interface to telephony applications for ISVs and partners.
Availability
TeleVoce licenses its TeleVoce-Connected VoIP technology platform to consumer VoIP global manufacturing partners with established retail channels and distribution, as well as to independent software application developers (ISVs). New features for TeleVoce-Connected personalizable VoIP phone adapters and cordless phones will be available for download from TeleVoce and its partners in Q2 2006.