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From the website "Concierge Inc. integrates Lexicus' voice recognition into its Personal Communications Attendant (PCA), a messaging application that lets you retrieve e-mail, voice, and fax messages over the phone. Targeted at mobile users, PCA reads the messages in a synthesized human-like voice when you call it with the authorized Touch Tone code and tell it your password. PCA conducts a "training" session in which you can teach it to recognize system commands and your password." - ZDNet.com. "Users access their mailboxes with a combination of a touch-tone code and a spoken password, and tell the software what to do using voice commands (e.g., "Read Message", "Read Header", "Save", etc.). Users must first "train" the software to recognize about 40 words, and then it will respond only to the voice of the user who "trained" it. The software converts faxes using OCR, and uses text-to-speech technology to read e-mail messages and faxes over the phone. The software can also page users when a set number of messages arrive." - FAXFocus. "Through its AutoPage feature, PCA automatically alerts the user at a designated telephone or pager number when a user-specified number of e-mail, voice or fax messages have been received. The AutoPage function, or any PCA function, can be invoked either by local keyboard entry or remote voice command. The system also automatically determines the mode (fax, e-mail or voice) of incomingtransmissions and receives, stores, converts (where appropriate) and forwards messages in all modes." - Multimedia Telecommunications News. "When prompted by an authorized user, individual messages are read over the telephone connection and can be saved, discarded or forwarded in fax, e-mail or voice mode as designated by the user. Voice messages can also be forwarded to other locations. For example, a user can dictate a message and have the PCA e-mail the message to a business associate." - VoiceNews. "That could change with new software solutions that create a "universal in-box," where all three kinds of messages (voicemail, faxes and e-mail) can be retrieved via phone or PC....The Personal Communications Attendant, or PCA, from Concierge Inc. of Los Angeles relies on the power of a PC but is designed for users to retrieve messages by phone instead of via a Web site using text-to-speech programs. PCA also uses optical-character-recognition software to convert faxes into text files so computers can read them over the phone as well, said Allen Kahn, President of Concierge." Los Angeles Times. "The missing link needed to connect your e-mail inbox to your fax inbox to your telephone answering machine is voice recognition and text-to-speech synthesis. Okay, that's two links, but don't sweat it: Concierge will make both available to you...The Personal Communications Attendant (PCA) comes closer to the dream of the universal inbox than any off-the-shelf message solution we've seen to date, and its built-in voice technology is the reason....You also can have the system send a short, pre-recorded acknowledgment to a caller, and PCA will dial a pager or telephone to notify you whenever you get a message. You don't have to decide the forwarding location before you leave on your trip; you can call in and change this, and any other option in PCA, from the road. The system will forward your e-mail and faxes to other locations -- say, your hotel, or one of 10 other inboxes you designate -- as e-mail, fax, or voice as you choose." - PC World Online.