3com E-MAIL READER APPLICATION QUICK START GUIDE

3COM E-MAIL READER
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PPLICATION QUICK START GUIDE

IP Messaging Module
3Com® Convergence Applications Suite Release 7.0 and 7.1

This guide is for network operations, internal support, and Voice over
Internet Protocol (VoIP) systems planning personnel. Users of this
document should have a thorough knowledge of telecommunications, IP
telephony technology, and networks.

E-Mail Reader Application Overview

Part Number: 900-0319-01 Rev. AB Published August 2006

The 3Com E-Mail Reader application is a Text-To-Speech (TTS)
implementation. A TTS engine reads text strings and speaks them to a
listener. IP Messaging can use the E-Mail Reader application to speak the
content of e-mail messages to a subscriber when that subscriber uses a
telephone to retrieve e-mail messages from an IP Messaging mailbox.

The E-Mail Reader application is available from 3Com Customer Service. It
is distributed as a .zip file (Email Reader.zip) with these components:

■ TTS Engine - The TTS engine converts text into an encoded voice. The

E-Mail Reader application uses Speechify software from ScanSoft, Inc.
as the TTS engine. For the current release, Speechify software is
installed from the downloaded E-Mail Reader application on to a
Windows server.

■ TTS Voice - The TTS voice reads text strings aloud that a subscriber

retrieves from a voice mailbox.

■ TTS Adapter - The TTS adapter provides a link from the TTS engine,

Speechify, to IP Messaging software running on VCX Linux. The TTS
adapter is installed on the same Windows server as the Speechify TTS
engine.

The Speechify TTS engine, voice, and adapter can be only installed on a
Windows platform.

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Installation Requirements

The E-Mail Reader application has the following minimum hardware and
software requirements for a Windows installation:

■ A 500 MHz Intel Pentium III-based computer

■ 512 MB of RAM to support 72 ports. Refer to the Speechify User's

Guide or contact 3Com Technical Support for specific voice
requirements.

■ 60 MB of free disk space for Speechify server run-time software. Each

Speechify voice requires additional disk space. Refer to the Speechify
User's Guide or contact 3Com Technical Support for specific voice

requirements.

■ Minimum system paging file size: 300 MB

■ A Network Interface Card

■ Windows 2003 Server or Windows XP Professional

■ A utility such as WinZip or PKZip to open the .zip file that contains the

E-Mail Reader application

■ Internet Explorer 5.0 or later

■ Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 or later for reading the full Speechify

documentation set

Installation Overview

Install all three components of the E-Mail Reader application on the same
Windows workstation in the following order:

1 The TTS engine.

2 A voice.

3 The TTS adapter.

Installing the Engine Install the engine as follows:

1 Create a directory for the E-Mail Reader application.

2 Unzip the Email Reader.zip file in the directory that you created in step 1.

3 Navigate to Email Reader > speechify > Core

4 Double-click on setup.exe to install the TTS engine.

5 Follow the wizard and accept the End-User License Agreement.

The installer will caution you to install a TTS voice before the TTS software
will operate.

6 Click Finish and reboot the system.

Installing a Voice Install a voice as follows:

1 Navigate to Email Reader > speechify > Jill

2 Double-click on setup.exe to install the TTS voice.

3 Click Next, accept the license agreement, and click Next.

4 A Custom Setup screen appears. Do not change any of these settings.

Click Next.

5 Click Install.

6 Click Finish to close the installer.

Installation Overview 3

Installing the TTS

Adapter

Installing the TTS adapter is a multi-step process that is described in these
sections:

■ Initial installation on a Windows system

■ Configuration of various parameters

■ Starting the service

Installing the Adapter

Perform the initial TTS adapter installation as follows:

1 Navigate to Email Reader\ttsadapter

2 Double-click 3COMTtsservice.exe. A command window opens and then

closes.

3 Click Run… and type cmd to open a command window.

4 Navigate to the directory where 3COMTtsService.exe is located.

5 Type the following command to install 3ComUmsTtsAdapter as a service

in the Windows system:

3comttsservice -install

If the service is successfully installed, the system displays 3COM

IPMESSAGING TTS Adapter

installed .