Publication

An audio and telephone server for multimedia workstations

March 7, 1988

Chris Schmandt, Michael McKenna

Abstract

Workstation utility may be enhanced by the addition of audio and telephony functions for a number of applications, such as voice mail, multi-media documents, and computer conferencing. We outline the requirements of these applications, and present an audio server architecture employing a personal computer with a disk and speech-processing board as a server dedicated to the workstation. The functional interface between client and server is described, as well as our motivation for this specific server approach with particular emphasis on user interface considerations. We discuss our experience with this server architecture and contrast it with alternate architectures.

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