Stuart Henshall reports: "I’ve been experimenting with different Skype Answer Phones. I wrote some specs over a year ago.
And the simple answer is a well developed application will be a game changer
The general wisdom is you wont leave your computer working to handle your telephony needs. "
An early look at SAM a Skype Answer Machine makes traditional solutions seem old fashioned. This is the second Skype API enabled application that I've reported on.
Think about your current phone answer machine.
When you come home, you step through the door and hear it beeping away with new messages. You press the playback button… visually you can see how many messages were left but you cant choose the order.
You begin listening.
The first caller leaves a message no number.. the second a message with a number
. You search madly for a pen that works and any scrap of paper
the next message is already playing
. Before you know it have to listen to them all again carefully trying to write down numbers and names.
Now what if you had:
- A solution that not only captured voice messages, it also enables one click return dialing.
- Notifies each caller with a text message (can be customized) that they reached your answer machine so they can leave a note too.
- Records the sent text notification and thus retains presence information (online, away etc. for someone who may not be on your buddylist) thus informing you of likely callback success or for making a short text answer for the message easy if all it needs is a one liner.
But there's more!
Continue reading Stuart's post on his site..
