August 01, 2006
Sandhills Software Skype Add-ons
Sandhills Software [via AsteriskVoIP News] is offering three Skype-related products. The first are not explicitly VoIP offerings but instead use voice processing.
SkypeTransfer is US$19.99 and lets you transfer calls to someone in your Skype contact list. SkypeAttendant, is US$29.99 and automatically answers your SkypeIn or Skype to Skype calls using voice-to-text recognition. (To be honest, maybe I've lost my mind, but from the live demo of these two services, I cannot tell the difference.) There are 30-demos of these two packages.
SkypeMusicShare is US$9.99 and lets you share songs with your Skype buddies. There's also a Delta Jukebox that lets you play songs from your Windows Media Player library using voice commands. This sounds like fun, but the live demo button on their website just replays one of the other demos. There is a 15-day trial download. [If fledgling bands/ musicians want to talk to their fans and share their music simultaneously, they should follow the example of the Coldplay and Skype promo.]
So I download and installed all three demo versions to my laptop (Win XP). (From what I can tell, there are only Windows versions.) SkypeMusicShare and its included Delta Jukebox both gave me run-time errors. SkypeTransfer didn't seem to work; I tried to test it with a friend. I didn't bother having me call back to test SkypeAttendant.
It's unfortunate that these didn't work for me, as their general concept is sound, and the Delta Jukebox would have been fun. If I've understood their very brief description correctly, SkypeAttendant would likely be particularly useful in an enterprise VoIP setting.
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