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To: Drew Freeman who wrote (2835)	7/20/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: JC	Respond to of 10081

Portico uses a basic POP3 interface for your corporate email system. As for responding to emails.. I am not sure that you can STT (Speach to Text)for responding to emails. I know it will forward your email to you, or to one of your contacts, but you have to program in the contact, or tell it the address to send it to. It will also fax your emails to you or someone else. Try calling Corp Wireless for a demo, or ask them your questions. They are at www.corporatewireless.com I talked to Caroline Star when I was working this out! JC

To: Drew Freeman who wrote (2835)	7/20/1998 11:41:00 AM
From: Mike Gordon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

re: interface to corporate e-mail at the NYC annual meeting, dr. markmann inidicated that when they start targeting the large corporate user market (the current strategy is to tackle one market at a time, starting with small businesses a.k.a. without firewalls, then PIM manufacturers, then cellular service providers, then corporate users) they will have 3rd party "bridge" software that will allow portico to interface with your company's Octel and internal e-mail system. so, your company has to make a corporate decision to utilize portico for it's people in order to get the 100% seamless integration. and you will probably have to wait until '99 for the corporate market activities to heat up. in the meantime, you can instruct portico to ring your office phone 4 times (one short of your company voice mail picking up) and then to transfer the caller to your portico voice mail. for e-mail, you may have to set up the forwarding option on your current mail, which has some obvious drawbacks. for your quesion about replying, it was my understanding that you can voice-queue a reply message, and that the content of your reply would be in a .wav file (i.e., the recipient double-clicks it and hears your actual voice reply) -mg

To: Drew Freeman who wrote (2835)	7/20/1998 1:12:00 PM
From: Mark Oliver	Respond to of 10081

Drew, Replying to an e-mail with Portico is simple. In fact, with no typing involved, it could be simpler. Have you ever gotten a .wav file in your e-mail? It's just a recording. Click on it and listen. Very friendly. Portico does not do Speech to Text. This is very processor intensive. They choose the simply route. I can only say for myself, I can access my e-mail from any computer. I often live in Australia, but never change my contact e-mail. So, people send me messages and they sit on a ISP in California. I read them from Australia and reply using the same California address. The person who receives my mail never needs to know I'm in Australia. Everytime I go to Australia, I get a new e-mail account. Both ISP's are protected by firewalls. I could also read my mail from a friends computer, libraries, etc. The main thing is that if I know my POP account protocols and password, I can read my mail from any computer. These things can be entered into Portico at the set up and never have to be said again. I can see it would be a real time saver as normally you need to re-enter this stuff everytime you use a different computer. Think about the time saved if you have 3 or 4 e-mail accounts. While I don't fully understand the added complication of firewalls, I do know that road warriors are reading mail remotely everyday. Portico should simply work like any other remote access. If I miss something please let me know. Regards, Mark

To: Drew Freeman who wrote (2835)	7/20/1998 9:44:00 PM
From: Austin S.	Respond to of 10081

Several have already responded to your post. It is correct that you may respond to e-mail by a wav.file (your actual voice will be heard via e-mail). However, in short order I anticipate that a speech-to-text component will be added to give the Portico user the option as to how to respond to e-mail. Already, many companies have excellent speech-to-text software that is both effective and inexpensive. P.S. I participated in a live Portico demo with a representative of Freedom Call last week and, while on the phone, sent Michael Dotterer an e-mail. Within seconds, Portico alerted him to the incoming e-mail, identified who it was from (me) and then, upon Michael's verbal command, read the entire text of my e-mail (as I followed along) PERFECTLY. I was most impressed!