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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>If you haven't heard, Youmail has recently created
a drop-box email interface for their transcription service. As of right
now, it's free, but whether free or paid, this may be good news for those on
this list who want to annex transcripion functionality to your current mix of
voicemail offerings.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>For example:<BR>We (like many) use Asterisk to
integrate the voicemail of mobile, legacy PBX, and 'normal' Asterisk
mailboxes to create a unified messaging interface. DropBox will allow us
to tack on a transcription function with trivial effort. Before the
DropBox interface you'd have needed to kludge up something like a drill-down bot
to play the message to the youmail service in baseband audio.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Imagine the efficiency of doing something like
this: </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Re-relay [sic] the youmail transcription with the
addtion of a special single-use URL (or even special Phone number), which,
when visited by the subscriber (or momentarily called with the CallerID of
the subscriber) would trigger a change to the status of that message
</FONT><FONT face=Arial size=2>back at the Asterisk mothership. In this
way, the end user (if satisfied with the transcription) could opt out of the
need to manually visit the audio interface of their voicmail box for a properly
transcribed message. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>We've been impressed with the performance of
youmail within the silo of it's normal customer-facing UI, but we have not yet
had a chance to test drive DropBox as integrated with Asterisk. We plan to
do so shortly after we put out a few fires and free up some creative bandwidth.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Youmail on geting started with DropBox (FAQ):<BR><A
href="http://www.youmail.com/help/view/faq_dropoff_start">http://www.youmail.com/help/view/faq_dropoff_start</A></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-Karl </FONT></DIV>
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