Lucent Technologies 101-1620-005 User Manual

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Introducing Octel Unified Messenger
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Voice server
The voice server is a Windows NT-based system that is the integral link 
between the LAN and the telephone network. It performs the following 
functions:
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Answers PBX-forwarded telephone calls.
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Plays personalized greetings.
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Records messages.
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Sends compressed message files to subscriber mailboxes for 
storage.
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Retrieves stored messages for playback through the telephone or 
through multimedia. 
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Provides the capability for TTS conversion of e-mail messages.
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Detects incoming faxes and forwards them to third-party fax 
servers.
Multilingual 
text-to-speech
The voice server includes a speech synthesis device that allows 
subscribers to hear their e-mail messages over the telephone. This feature 
is also used for name confirmation when a recorded name is not available.
Organizations that receive e-mail in more than one language can enable a 
multilingual TTS. This identifies the language of the e-mail message and 
reads the message in that language.
The following languages are available:
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English
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French
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German
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Spanish
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Dutch
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Italian
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Russian
Tracing server
The tracing server is a separate system that records operational 
information about activity in the voice mail domain. Events, for example, 
port activity, are stored in an operation history database. An administrator