Wesley M. Bibro, II <techtap@mc.net> wrote
in article
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THUMBS UP!
Boca Research
33.6 Fax/Data/Voice Plug & Play Voice Modem (OEM)
Boca 33600 ACF Modem
Exceptional sound volume and quality.
Exceptional DTMF keypress response.
Fully supports Caller ID
Unimodem/V
Does not report caller disconnect..
Install “stock” modem drivers.
Philippe Leuba <P.Leuba@mediaphonics.com>
wrote in article
01bd7405$2370dea0$070100c0@philippe...
- MediaPhonics SA, The Telware Company [http://www.mediaphonics.com]
- PhoneRider Board
- Fully TAPI compliant with our own TSP
- Fully supports Caller ID
- Both handset and speakerphone with in house echo-cancellation
- Full duplex
- Excellent voice quality
- Good DTMF and call progress detections
- Fax 14400 bps
- Modem 33600 bps
and soon,
- Distinctive ring detection
- IP telephony support
Wesley M. Bibro, II <techtap@mc.net> wrote
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THUMBS DOWN
US Robotics (3Com)
Sportster Voice 33.6 Internal Faxmodem with Personal Voice Mail
Model 1171
Low sound volume.
Slow DTMF response.
Unimodem/V
Fails to report caller disconnect.
USR/3Com fails consistently to respond to TAPI questions.
Perform the “procedure” at
(http://www.usrobotics.com/home/online/trblshot/14113.htm => Broken link:
Search for the new link location).
Visit the USR/3Com download area (www.3com.com)
for the latest drivers.
Terry Harrigan <Terry_Harrigan@InfiniteMail.com>
wrote in article
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01) The manufacturer or brand name of the device.
USRobotics
>02) The model name or number of the device.
56K Voice FaxModem External (Model No 1784).
03) Any identifying marks present or aliases the device is known by.
Nope.
04) Whether you have found the device to be mostly TAPI compliant or not TAPI
compliant.
Marginally TAPI compliant.
05) What Telephony Service Provider (TSP) is included or supported by the device
(i.e; Unimodem V, etc.)
UnimodemV
06) Whether the device/TSP combination properly reports a caller disconnect (hang-up).
No.
07) Comments about sound quality and volume.
Sound quality poor. Amplitude satisfactory. No volume control.
08) Comments about touch-tone (DTMF) keypress responsiveness.
VERY SLOW.
09) General installation, configuration, and/or operation notes.
No problems in the installation.
10) An estimated "street price" or retail price (if available).
$225.
11) Any additional specifications, ratings, concerns, comments, or whatnot you
may like to add.
Very susceptible to recorded DTMF tones. When playing back a recorded
message ended by a DTMF tone, the recorded DTMF tone would be processed
as a incoming DTMF tone and the associated TAPI callback would be activated.
This did not happen with any of the other voice modems I used.
Terry Harrigan <Terry_Harrigan@InfiniteMail.com>
wrote in article
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01) The manufacturer or brand name of the device.
Practical Peripherals
02) The model name or number of the device.
336 EXT
03) Any identifying marks present or aliases the device is known by.
not by me!
04) Whether you have found the device to be mostly TAPI compliant or not TAPI
compliant.
Very satisfied.
05) What Telephony Service Provider (TSP) is included or supported by the device
(i.e; Unimodem V, etc.)
UnimodemV
06) Whether the device/TSP combination properly reports a caller disconnect (hang-up).
No.
07) Comments about sound quality and volume.
Sound quality typical for WAV modems (8,000 Hz sample rate at 16 bits per sample).
08) Comments about touch-tone (DTMF) keypress responsiveness.
Very good.
09) General installation, configuration, and/or operation notes.
No configuration problems.
10) An estimated "street price" or retail price (if available).
NA
11) Any additional specifications, ratings, concerns, comments, or whatnot you
may like to add.
My first choice for a voice modem. (and no, I'm not affiliated with PP <g>).
Terry Harrigan <Terry_Harrigan@InfiniteMail.com>
wrote in article
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01) The manufacturer or brand name of the device.
USRobotics
02) The model name or number of the device.
56K Voice FaxModem External (Model No 1784).
>03) Any identifying marks present or aliases the device is known by.
Nope.
04) Whether you have found the device to be mostly TAPI compliant or not TAPI
compliant.
Marginally TAPI compliant.
05) What Telephony Service Provider (TSP) is included or supported by the device
(i.e; Unimodem V, etc.)
UnimodemV
06) Whether the device/TSP combination properly reports a caller disconnect (hang-up).
No.
07) Comments about sound quality and volume.
Sound quality poor. Amplitude satisfactory. No volume control.
08) Comments about touch-tone (DTMF) keypress responsiveness.
VERY SLOW.
09) General installation, configuration, and/or operation notes.
No problems in the installation.
10) An estimated "street price" or retail price (if available).
$225.
11) Any additional specifications, ratings, concerns, comments, or whatnot you
may like to add.
Very susceptible to recorded DTMF tones. When playing back a recorded
message ended by a DTMF tone, the recorded DTMF tone would be processed
as a incoming DTMF tone and the associated TAPI callback would be activated.
This did not happen with any of the other voice modems I used.
Terry Harrigan <Terry_Harrigan@InfiniteMail.com>
wrote in article
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01) The manufacturer or brand name of the device.
AzTech
02) The model name or number of the device.
unsure, came with Packard Bell Platinum Pro XXI machine.
03) Any identifying marks present or aliases the device is known by.
An internal 3/4 length 16 bit ISA voice modem/sound card.
04) Whether you have found the device to be mostly TAPI compliant or not TAPI
compliant.
Works well.
05) What Telephony Service Provider (TSP) is included or supported by the device
(i.e; Unimodem V, etc.)
UnimodemV
06) Whether the device/TSP combination properly reports a caller disconnect (hang-up).
No.
07) Comments about sound quality and volume.
Sound quality typical (8,000 Hz, PCM 16 bits/sample) Volume good (no control
through TAPI/UnimodemV).
08) Comments about touch-tone (DTMF) keypress responsiveness.
Very Good.
09) General installation, configuration, and/or operation notes.
Somewhat difficult to install the correct drivers. Initial drivers provided
with the card did not work.
10) An estimated "street price" or retail price (if available).
NA
11) Any additional specifications, ratings, concerns, comments, or whatnot you
may like to add.
Nope. Equivalent to the PP 336 EXT in overall TAPI/voice quality.
Terry Harrigan <Terry_Harrigan@InfiniteMail.com>
wrote in article
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01) The manufacturer or brand name of the device.
Dialogic
02) The model name or number of the device.
ProLine/2V
03) Any identifying marks present or aliases the device is known by.
Internal ISA card supporting two lines.
04) Whether you have found the device to be mostly TAPI compliant or not TAPI
compliant.
TAPI compliant.
05) What Telephony Service Provider (TSP) is included or supported by the device
(i.e; Unimodem V, etc.)
Provided at their web site (both Win95 and WinNT).
06) Whether the device/TSP combination properly reports a caller disconnect (hang-up).
Yes.
07) Comments about sound quality and volume.
Sound quality very good (default sample rate 11,025 Hz PCM, 8 bits per sample).
08) Comments about touch-tone (DTMF) keypress responsiveness.
Ok, but suffers with newest SAPI SPEECH.DLL from Microsoft. Probably due to
excessive queuing of data.
09) General installation, configuration, and/or operation notes.
"Trying". NT install requires 100 MB download. Installation procedure
WAY
to complicated. Under WinNT, a single clip about 1/4 second into the audio
is experienced with SPEECH.DLL included in SAPI 3.0. Problem resolved with
a more recent version I've obtained but response time is significantly
slower (~1 sec with 3.0 SPEECH.DLL, ~2.5 sec with 4.x SPEECH.DLL). Host
system a Pentium NT 4.0 SP3 100 MHz, 40 MB system.
Win95 system audio also suffers in the initial portion of a TTS text stream.
After a few seconds it improves, but occasional broken audio is still heard
(using dedicated 150 MHz Pentium, 48 MB memory, AT&T Watson 2.1 engine).
Win95 system sometimes fails to detect any DTMFs for the entire telephony
session.
10) An estimated "street price" or retail price (if available).
NA
11) Any additional specifications, ratings, concerns, comments, or whatnot
See 9.
Wesley M. Bibro, II <techtap@mc.net> wrote
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Thumbs Down!
Prometheus Products
CyberPhone - PC144ivsp
NOT TAPI COMPLIANT
Billed as a "Voice Modem w/ SpeakerPhone"
Prometheus is Out of Business.
I found this modem listed on an online auction (new).
Wesley M. Bibro, II <techtap@mc.net> wrote
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Undecided...
ActionTec
56K bps DeskTalk Internal Voice Fax Modem with Speakerphone
DT56000-01, X2
Poor sound volume and quality.
Poor DTMF keypress response.
Inconsistent and “Flaky”
“Generic” grade voice modem.
Unimodem/V
Forces call monitoring (can’t turn speaker off).
About $52 "street price"
___________________________________________
We have re-tested and evaluated the ActionTec 56K bps DeskTalk Internal
Voice Fax Modem with Speakerphone. While, in our previous testing, we had
received two modems (in a row) that had many problems, our current tests
have revealed that, WHEN WORKING, these modems seem to perform with TAPI in
an above average manner (depending on the phase of the moon (smile)).
Though, the sound output (to caller) low-volume problems and reliability
issues have yet to be addressed, we feel that this modem can be again be
cautiously added to our list of TAPI compliant voice modems.
David Bevins <dbevins@mtnsys.com> wrote
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One of the better modems we have tested are the Zoom Comstar 33.6k models.
The have fair voice quality
They support silence detection
They install and work with the drivers included on the installation CD
On the down side, speakerphone use is buggy and prone to errors.
David Bevins <dbevins@mtnsys.com> wrote
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We tried this modem and were pleased with the initial results. So pleased
we ordered a dozen and shipped to our customers.
All 12 came back. Apparently the newer Firmware had caused sound quality
to
go out the Window.
Pretty sad when a firmware update downgrades the modem. Maybe there has
been a new firmware released since our test?
Best regards,
David B.
Wesley M. Bibro, II wrote in message ...
>THUMBS UP!
>
>Boca Research
>33.6 Fax/Data/Voice Plug & Play Voice Modem (OEM)
>Boca 33600 ACF Modem
>Exceptional sound volume and quality.
>Exceptional DTMF keypress
>Fully supports Caller ID
>Unimodem/V
>Does not report caller disconnect..
>Install “stock” modem drivers.
Stefanos Economou <orfeas@eng.auth.gr>
wrote in article
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01) The manufacturer or brand name of the device.
Diamond Multimedia
02) The model name or number of the device.
Supra Express 336 V+
03) Any identifying marks present or aliases the device is known by.
04) Whether you have found the device to be mostly TAPI compliant or not TAPI compliant.
05) What Telephony Service Provider (TSP) is included or supported by the device
(i.e; Unimodem V, etc.)
Unimodem/V
06) Whether the device/TSP combination properly reports a caller disconnect (hang-up).
No
07) Comments about sound quality and volume.
Very good sound quality
08) Comments about touch-tone (DTMF) keypress responsiveness.
Not tested yet.
09) General installation, configuration, and/or operation notes.
Going by the book..
10) An estimated "street price" or retail price (if available).
NA
11) Any additional specifications, ratings, concerns, comments, or whatnot
you may like to add.
Terry Harrigan <harrigan@InfiniteMail.com>
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01) The manufacturer or brand name of the device.
Dialogic
02) The model name or number of the device.
D/41D (4 line internal card)
03) Any identifying marks present or aliases the device is known by.
Nope
04) Whether you have found the device to be mostly TAPI compliant or not TAPI
compliant.
TAPI Compliant
05) What Telephony Service Provider (TSP) is included or supported by the device
(i.e; Unimodem V, etc.)
NT driver supplied by Dialogic via their Web page.
06) Whether the device/TSP combination properly reports a caller disconnect (hang-up).
Yep, works fine.
07) Comments about sound quality and volume.
Very Good (11kHz, 8 bit sample, PCM format).
08) Comments about touch-tone (DTMF) keypress responsiveness.
Good, but slows with recent Microsoft Speech.dll which is required to resolve broken
audio.
09) General installation, configuration, and/or operation notes.
No problems. Requires single IRQ.
10) An estimated "street price" or retail price (if available).
NA
11) Any additional specifications, ratings, concerns, comments, or whatnot you
may like to add.
Like the ProLine/2V, you need to download their installation software which
is 100 MBs and requires a good deal of work to get it installed.
Vic Feria <vferia@worldnet.att.net> wrote in message
>24F5AF281C7CD211A5B500A0C90C5D1189E0F4@inetnews1.turbopower.com>...
> 3Com modems are
> indeed very noisy and low volume. If you modify your wav file to generate
> higher volume then the 3COM modem gets over modulated. The least expensive
> quality modem I have tried is the SUPRAexpress 56E voicefaxmodem. The ZOOM
> 56K DualMode VoiceFaxModem works just as well. The Zoom modem is
> slow-reacting when you send DTMF tones out. I Supra can buffer DTMF tones at
> 300ms in between sends. Zoom requires twice that or 600 milliseconds. If you
> send at 300 then it starts to drop every 4th digit.
>
> Boca Research modems are only good for uses other than voice. They have
> similar quality as the 3COMs. Of course, if you' re willing to plunk in more
> then there are others like the vantage, dialogic and mediaphonics which can
> utilize and enhance wav sounds.
>
Robert Baker <zxytek@home.net> wrote in message
> news:24F5AF281C7CD211A5B500A0C90C5D1189DFE9@inetnews1.turbopower.com...
> ...
> As to how 3Com can justify charging twice what any other manufacturer
> charges? Well, they have a good reputation going back to their USRobotics
> days. Modems have become a commodity and there are many inexpensive and
> reliable fax modems (the chip sets probably cost about 99 cents US). I
> have no vested interest in Creative Labs but we have had excellent voice
> results with their Voice Modems ($39.00 US) and no problems with faxing.
It is
> for your benefit that I share this hard earned and valuable information.
You
> got it for free so disregard it as you like, but keep in mind that we work
> in an information industry that is full of more misinformation that
> information and this experience I am sharing is an accurate account of an
> expensive real life situation.
"Pierre le Riche" <pleriche@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:24F5AF281C7CD211A5B500A0C90C5D1189D093@inetnews1.turbopower.com...
> We've found the 3COM external modems to be the most
> reliable with faxing, so that was the reason we decided to go with them
> regardless of the high price tag. I'm sure there must be a fix for the
> poor sound quality, otherwise how can they justify charging twice what any
> other manufacturer charges?
"Robert Baker" <zxytek@home.net> wrote in message
> news:24F5AF281C7CD211A5B500A0C90C5D1189D07F@inetnews1.turbopower.com...
> I found Creative Labs Voice Modems ($39.00 US) to provide excellent
> sound quality. Lots of bang for the buck. They are PCI internal; I
have 2
> in a W2KPro box doing TAPI DTMF for medical lab test results from a SQL
> database.
> We have about 30 different .wav files of various lengths and the only
> issue I currently have is the my autoanswer is shutting off from time to
> time, but Don is helping me with it and I am sure it will be resolved shortly.
"Pierre le Riche" <pleriche@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:24F5AF281C7CD211A5B500A0C90C5D1189C949@inetnews1.turbopower.com...
> We've been having a problem with playing back .WAV files over 3COM US
> Robotics external modems. The sound quality is very poor when you
> listen to it over the handset (like when the answering machine message
> plays).
> Even the .WAV files that you use for your demos sound bad. It sounds as
> if the sound is clipping, yet the playback volume is quite low. We have
> experimented with recording our voice message at different volumes
> and bitrates with no success... it seems it only accepts 16 bit 8kHz
> anyway.
>
> We've tried the fancy 3COM 56K External Message Modem (both an old
> and newer model) as well as Sportster 56K. All are external serial modems.
> We're also running only Win2K, but if I recall correctly we got the same
> results on one of our Win95 machines.