Click to listen ! Parliant Introduces PhoneHerald Broadcast Dialer speech empowered by Acapela tones.

PhoneHerald offers the productivity edge and convenience of automatic dialling, personalized message delivery and response collection for businesses and institutions of any size. PhoneHerald applications include, for example, medical appointment reminders, school attendance calling and parental surveys, club meeting and membership reminders, small business service pick-up notifications and maintenance calls, and emergency response alerts. The individual phone message is delivered with natural and pleasant Acapela tones, reading out loud in real time personalized information and not only just automated generic ones- for optimal restitution of the information to the user, including proper names, exceptions or abbreviations. "Reaching, notifying and surveying groups of people over the phone has never been easier." said Parliant President Kevin Ford. "Acapela high quality text to speech contributes to making PhoneHerald an efficient, cost effective way to broadcast information, through a seamless interface at a very competitive price." PhoneHerald is a combination of USB phone adapter hardware and Mac OS X software priced at USD$399.95 per phone line including 200 free calls (additional calls can be purchased in bulk).