AudioTalk Lends Voice Commerce Solution To Pulver.com Voice On the Net Conference.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 28, 2000 Click-to-talk technology solution provides instant voice communication with exhibiting companies from any browser browser Software that allows a computer user to find and view information on the Internet. The first text-based browser for the World Wide Web became available in 1991; Web use expanded rapidly after the release in 1993 of a browser called Mosaic, which used AudioTalk Networks Inc., a leading provider of Internet voice for e-business, Tuesday announced that it is providing voice services to support the Voice on the Net 2000 (VON 2000) conference taking place in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. this week. AudioTalk is offering several voice solutions to allow VON 2000 attendees to communicate with each other and to contact exhibiting companies using live Internet voice technology. The innovative implementation of live voice technology provides both an e-commerce and community-based solution for technology vendors and their customers. Earlier this month, AudioTalk and HearMe (Nasdaq:HEAR) announced plans to merge and offer a wide range of Voice over IP solutions for Web businesses looking to add voice to virtually all types of Web applications. Visitors to the VON 2000 website (www.von.com) will have two distinct ways to use AudioTalk live voice technology. First, the site will offer a direct click-to-talk connection to companies scheduled to exhibit at the VON 2000 show. Attendees will be able to talk over the Internet with companies hosting exhibit booths at VON 2000 to learn more about their products and services. Users simply click on the appropriate link on the VON 2000 website and establish a live call between their PC based browser and the normal telephone for each exhibitor. Using a computer microphone and speakers, site visitors can participate in a live voice conversation while still viewing the VON 2000 Web site. AudioTalk technology enables live voice conversations for site visitors and VON 2000 exhibiting companies by providing a bridge from a small, automatically installing PC-based client to a standard H.323 compliant VoIP gateway onto the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN (Public Switched Telephone Network) The worldwide voice telephone network. Once only an analog system, the heart of most telephone networks today is all digital. In the U.S. ). AudioTalk will also power the VON site with a group of conference rooms that are associated with the VON conference tracks. This allows attendees to conference with each other about the topics that are being presented at the show. "AudioTalk's click-to-talk and group conferencing See teleconferencing. voice solutions are a great enhancement to our website that will benefit our customers both on the show floor and back in their office," said Jeff Pulver Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and founder of pulver.com, and a founder of the VoIP industry. Pulver is the chief writer of what's referred to as "the Pulver Order", which was adopted in 2004 by the Federal Communications Commission as the first FCC ruling regarding internet , president of Pulver.com, and host of VON 2000. "Attendees can easily discuss conference tracks in a dedicated voice chat room or call an exhibiting company's conventional telephone number by clicking on a link from any browser." "By adding voice communications to their site, VON 2000 can add personal, interactive communications that provide quick and compelling ways for exhibiting companies to communicate directly with people interested in their services," said Frank Chu This article or section may contain original research or unverified claims. Please help Wikipedia by adding references. See the for details. This article has been tagged since September 2007. , president of AudioTalk Networks. "This is a great showcase for interactive Internet communications of today and of the future. We are pleased with the opportunity to work with such an important industry event as VON to provide high quality voice services for their attendees." Integrating voice communications into a web site using AudioTalk's Internet voice service requires no additional hardware or software. Web site users access the AudioTalk service using a PC or a telephone. AudioTalk's thin-client application takes only moments to download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. and is automatically installed as an OCX/plug-in for Internet Explorer Microsoft's Web browser, which comes with Windows starting with Windows 98. Commonly called "IE," versions for Mac and Unix are also available. Internet Explorer is the most widely used Web browser on the market. It has also been the browser engine in AOL's Internet access software. and Netscape Navigator An earlier Web browser for Windows, Macintosh and X Windows from Netscape that provided secure transmission over the Internet. Soon after its introduction in 1994, Navigator, or just "Netscape," as it was commonly called, quickly became the leading browser on the Web. . The AudioTalk service is firewall friendly, allowing user access to voice services from dial-up connections or from corporate networks. AudioTalk's client is also based on the Session Initiation Protocol (protocol) Session Initiation Protocol - (SIP) A very simple text-based application-layer control protocol. It creates, modifies, and terminates sessions with one or more participants. Such sessions include Internet telephony and multimedia conferences. It is described in RFC 2543. (SIP (1) (Session Initiation Protocol) An IP telephony signaling protocol developed by the IETF. Primarily used for voice over IP (VoIP) calls, SIP can also be used for video or any media type; for example, SIP has been used to set up multi-player Quake games. ) to enable seamless connection to standard telephone networks. About AudioTalk AudioTalk Networks Inc., is a privately-held company based in Mountain View, that provides high quality Internet voice services to e-business. AudioTalk creates the enabling technology and turnkey See turnkey system. services and infrastructure to add Internet voice communications to web sites without installing additional hardware and software. AudioTalk's e-business customers add Internet voice services to enhance online web communities, sell products, provide customer assistance and communicate in ways unique to the Internet. AudioTalk Networks was founded in August 1998 by executives and engineers from leading Internet, networking and multimedia application vendors, including Creative Labs, FVC FVC forced vital capacity. FVC abbr. forced vital capacity FVC, n See forced vital capacity. FVC forced vital capacity. .com, Polycom, ShareVision, Bay Networks, and Oracle. The AudioTalk team brings years of combined experience and expertise in the areas of voice and video over data networks. In early March 2000, AudioTalk formed a definitive agreement to merge with HearMe (Nasdaq:HEAR). The merger is expected to close during the second quarter. For further information on AudioTalk, go to www.audiotalk.com. |
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