Neenah, WI — Feb. 1 —Schmooze Communications and speech recognition provider LumenVox announced today the general release of the Magic Button for Asterisk, the Open-Source PBX. The Magic Button is a plug-in for Asterisk systems using the FreePBX interface that allows users to press a programmable button on a phone and issue speech commands to control the phone in an easy, intuitive manner.
“The Magic Button is better, cheaper, and more flexible than anything else on the market,” said Tony Lewis, Schmooze’s director of business development at Schmooze.
With a touch of the Magic Button, users can use their voice to make calls, set an away status, send and receive messages, and more. The Magic Button also allows for voice controls inside a call — users can press the button in the middle of a call and say, Transfer to accounts payable, to send the call to the appropriate department or person.
The Magic Button also gives users a speech-enabled dial-by-name directory and allows them to use speech recognition to control their voicemail or set their away status.
Anyone in the organization can say “Where is John Smith?” and the system will notify the user if John Smith is away and when that user will return. Upon saying “I’m back,” any person that requested notification of that user’s return will be automatically paged and have the option of connecting to that user immediately.
Unlike proprietary, closed systems "the Magic Button allows customers to use their existing hardware and software and add speech recognition for almost no cost,” LumenVox President Edward Miller said. “This allows users to build a custom solution to fit their needs that they can easily upgrade with any new hardware or software of their choosing in the future.”
Where other similar systems require large amounts of money up front to buy their combined hardware and software offerings, the Magic Button presents a novel approach: users can implement it into their existing Asterisk at a low monthly rate.
“The cost for the Magic Button application on a system with 10 extensions is only $12 a month,” Lewis said. “Add to this the free, open-source Asterisk PBX, a PC, and phones, and you have a complete phone system with features that are currently only available in an enterprise-level PBX.”
“Magic Button systems are built on flexible, open standards, and do not require specific hardware,” Miller said.”
"As the sponsor of Asterisk, we are pleased to see innovative solutions such as "Magic Button" that extend the capabilities of open source telephony while addressing a clear market need," said Jim Webster, director of technology partnerships for Digium.
For more information on the signing up for the public release of these applications please visit www.schmoozecom.com/publicspeech.html
For further information, contact:
Tony Lewis, Schmooze director of business development
+1 920-886-8132
tony.lewis@schmoozecom.com
Gerd Graumann, LumenVox director of business development
+1 858-707-7700, just say “Gerd Graumann”
gerd@lumenvox.com
About Scmooze
Schmooze Communications is a manufacture of IP PBX phone system based in Neenah, WI that has focused on building highly user friendly phone systems and features that allow the end user to throw away those famous “cheat sheets” forever. With our extensive phone based applications and speech applications feature codes are a thing of the past. Schmooze Communications can be reached at 8660834-0996 or at www.schmoozecom.com
About LumenVox
LumenVox provides accurate and affordable speech recognition software together with a comitted focus on excellect customer service. LumenVox software has won more than 30 industry awards for innovation, technical excellence, and customer's choice. LumenVox can be reached at 858-707-7700 or at www.LumenVox.com