Re: wireless services
Aditya, Thank you for your Internet message: ... why are you segregating these voice features with web/email/WAP? I do not understand that question. My problem stems from the use of the verb "segregating" modified by "with" -- those two do not work well together. ... using WAP, we can easily incorporate these features in today's cellular phone Great. Please explain how to use WAP for asynchronous audio messaging. I had not been told that the WAP forum had incorporated that yet. I predicted it would take them at least three months longer. In terms of open standards, Dave Raggett designed INPUT TYPE=AUDIO in HTML+ forms in 1993. I wonder what the WML form bytecodes for that are, or if they have even been designed within the confines of the WML forum. ... in WAP we have some thing called the WTAI ( Wireless Telephony Application Interface ) that provides services like auto call back, voice mail etc to mobile handset via concept of WTA Server. Where is WTAI documented? If WTAI is proprietary, closed, and obscure, as it has been, it will have limited market share when compared to open, free, and well-documented standards. Good asynch voice in a portable is just as good as quality email on the desktop, and the quality of voice browsers will get up there, too. Likewise, IP will stay as popular for its API as it already is, and packet switches with popular routing protocols will become typical options for cellular switch installations. Those APIs that allow programs to perform operations unpopular with the hardware owners will tend to be discouraged. Similarly, until voicemail replies are as easy as email replies, the full benefits of asyncrhonous voice messaging are unlikely to be realized. I feel it is very likely that the more open a standard is, the easier it is to reply to a message sent using that standard. Many of us have a duty to work towards these optimum conditions. There are plenty of ways to make incremental improvements in the right direction. The solutions that appear to have the strongest monitary potential in the short term are not as worthwhile as those that clearly do have greater strength in the long term. Cheers, James -- http://www.bovik.org.
Re: wireless services
Hi James You are certainly correct to some extent . These type of features ARE useful . I myself would like to use them. But why are you segregating these voice features with web/email/WAP?? To be more specific using WAP, we can easily incorporate these features in today's cellular phone. Rember , in WAP we have some thing called the WTAI ( Wireless Telephony Application Interface ) that provides services like auto call back, voice mail etc to mobile handset via concept of WTA Server. Internet has the power to be available to us any time anywhere , and we should use this facility as effectively as possible either via wireline links or Wireless cheers Aditya "James P. Salsman" wrote: Where, and by whom, is wireless service with the following features offered? 1. An option for incoming telephone calls to go directly to voicemail, transmitting spoken messages asynchronously to a buffer inside the telephone transceiver, using a reliable transport of high quality audio. Messages could thereby be played back in regions without good RF conditions, and replayed any number of times without incurring additional airtime charges. 2. A means to send voice messages to email destinations with an Internet message containing a URL pointing to a web server with a choice of audio formats from which the message would be played back. Again, it would be preferable if such messages were buffered on the telephone transceiver, sent reliably, asynchronously, and using high quality audio, because RF congestion could cease to be a significant problem if circuit-switched telephone connections were replaced with the flexibility of packet TDMA. 3. A means to send similarly asynchronous messages to telephone destinations with an automated outbound call announcing the message sent and offering to play the message upon a touch-tone response, or announcing the telephone and access numbers with which the message can be retrieved (in case the announcement ends up in the recipient's voicemail.) 4. A means to send instructions for retrieving such messages using numeric page or SMS messages for other wireless destinations. 5. A means for recipients of messages as described in 2-4 above to reply with spoken or numeric or short text messages. The identity of the message being replied to should be clear from the characteristics of the reply. 6. A serial port on the telephone transceiver providing a PPP link to a laptop, palmtop, desktop, or server with severed net connection, etc. Any one of those features would provide far more value to me and most of the people I know than WAP. Who was/will be first to market with them? Asynchronous voice messaging is very useful when replies are easy -- which is not the case with most voicemail systems in use today. Effective asynchronous voice messaging will be a more important application than either web or email service on wireless platforms because the portable nature of wireless devices is simply antithetical to bulky keyboards and large displays. Cheers, James
wireless services
Where, and by whom, is wireless service with the following features offered? 1. An option for incoming telephone calls to go directly to voicemail, transmitting spoken messages asynchronously to a buffer inside the telephone transceiver, using a reliable transport of high quality audio. Messages could thereby be played back in regions without good RF conditions, and replayed any number of times without incurring additional airtime charges. 2. A means to send voice messages to email destinations with an Internet message containing a URL pointing to a web server with a choice of audio formats from which the message would be played back. Again, it would be preferable if such messages were buffered on the telephone transceiver, sent reliably, asynchronously, and using high quality audio, because RF congestion could cease to be a significant problem if circuit-switched telephone connections were replaced with the flexibility of packet TDMA. 3. A means to send similarly asynchronous messages to telephone destinations with an automated outbound call announcing the message sent and offering to play the message upon a touch-tone response, or announcing the telephone and access numbers with which the message can be retrieved (in case the announcement ends up in the recipient's voicemail.) 4. A means to send instructions for retrieving such messages using numeric page or SMS messages for other wireless destinations. 5. A means for recipients of messages as described in 2-4 above to reply with spoken or numeric or short text messages. The identity of the message being replied to should be clear from the characteristics of the reply. 6. A serial port on the telephone transceiver providing a PPP link to a laptop, palmtop, desktop, or server with severed net connection, etc. Any one of those features would provide far more value to me and most of the people I know than WAP. Who was/will be first to market with them? Asynchronous voice messaging is very useful when replies are easy -- which is not the case with most voicemail systems in use today. Effective asynchronous voice messaging will be a more important application than either web or email service on wireless platforms because the portable nature of wireless devices is simply antithetical to bulky keyboards and large displays. Cheers, James
