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Voice Dialing Over Dialtone

Background
Voice Dialing over DialTone technology ('vDot') was one of the first public methods of voice dialing available. It was introduced in the mid 1990's, well before the technology was offered in today's millions of mobile telephones. In the early 1990's analog telephones were widely deployed, and "speech recognition" technology was a new science. Basic Voice Dialing over Dialtone operation seamlessly tied 3 new technologies together,  "speech recognition"  "PC based phone directories" and a new market called "Voice dialing".

The scheme of design was simple, but novel. A device (Voice Dial Manager, or VDM) would be attached to a computer as in interface to monitor the analog phone line activity. The VDM "listened" for off-hook and voice commands from any telephone in parallel on the system. Steps and operational stages included:
 * 1) Assign a PC or computer phone book as the dialing database
 * 2) Install Speech recognition software in the PC
 * 3) Attached a "vDot" enabled device in the PC, via a PC modem or (later) on a USB port

Once setup the following features were provided: Dial By Voice From Any Phone by simply saying a name when you lift the phone handset

Later versions of vDot products offered feature in the 1990's that today are standard on most mobile telephones including automatic management and database retrieval of call logs and missed calls, with associated name and numbers

Patents and Trademarks and Technology
The patent for vDot was applied for in 1993 and granted in 1996. The US trademark office also granted a registration for the marks vDot and TellAPhone shortly thereafter.

Patents are still currently active

VOICE RECOGNITION DIALING SYSTEM US PATENT 5483579 - Filed Feb 25, 1993 - Digital Acoustics, Inc. Stogel

An overview of the technology is online at http:/www.voicedial.org

The Original TellAPhone((r)
"TellAPhone" was first introduced as a patent and sold in 2000 by Digital Acoustics Corporation. It was also licensed into modem products sold by

Several major companies adopted the technology. Collectively they appeared at VoiceDial.Org One major corporation Conexant produced several million modem chips that included commands that would provide vDot voice dialing in 'off the shelf' Windows(r) enabled PC's

Consumer Product Versions
In 2002 -2004 It was also sold as a consumer product by Parliant and Mindmaker

Current Activity
The vDot patent is still active and the technology is under license. In 2007 the technology was offered again for licensing.

Today technology is held by the TextSpeak Design Group.