PhoneHerald Broadcast Dialer 1.1.2 review

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PhoneHerald is a broadcast dialer with Interactive Voice Response (IVR) capability for businesses and institutions seeking automatic group dialing, personalized message delivery and response collection.

License: Demo
OS: Mac OS X
File size: 171561K
Developer: Parliant Corporation
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Price: $399.00
Updated: 06 Dec 2006
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PhoneHerald is a broadcast dialer with Interactive Voice Response (IVR) capability for businesses and institutions seeking automatic group dialing, personalized message delivery and response collection.

With PhoneHerald you can give your Mac the job of reaching, notifying or surveying patients, parents, customers and staff members - freeing people for more productive work.

PhoneHerald's amazing features include sophisticated text-to-speech personalization, powerful data import facilities, flexible calling schedules, live forwarding of calls to support staff, a message builder that merges audio from different sources for interactive calls, plus call-generated to-do lists and email alerts.

Here are some key features of "PhoneHerald Broadcast Dialer":
Powerful Automated Dialing
At its core, PhoneHerald is a powerful automated dialing system. It manages the process of making calls from start to finish, repeating calls if there's no answer, trying different numbers to reach a person, and keeping searchable, databased records of all activity.

Call Scheduling Convenience
PhoneHerald can call a group of people and complete those calls, but that's only the beginning! PhoneHerald can also call groups of people in the future - as far out as a year or more. PhoneHerald can even schedule individual calls. PhoneHerald also allows users to set up "good" calling periods on a weekly Monday-to-Sunday schedule, to avoid calling people at inappropriate times.

Flexible Calling Options
PhoneHerald calls multiple phone numbers, and can be set up to call in different ways - for example, call each person on your list in the order specified or randomized so the same person does not have to respond every time. PhoneHerald can also stop calling when one person from the called group responds - for instance when you want to get a field service rep among a group of reps to attend to a customer.

High-Quality Text-to-Speech
PhoneHerald's text-to-speech capability generates smooth and natural sounding voices, providing high intelligibility and naturalness to end-users through sophisticated unit selection and concatenation techniques. The automatic intonation reflects the meaning of the text, with respect to pauses, breath groups, punctuation and context.

Easy-to-use Friendly Interface
In the spirit of the Macintosh, PhoneHerald provides a powerful yet simple user interface to deliver its capabilities. There are no complicated configuration files or programs/scripts to be written. A simple central screen provides access to browse and "drill down" into your call history, and watch the progress of ongoing calls.

Interactive Choices for Callers
People called by PhoneHerald can select from many choices in your main message, using the numbers on the telephone keypad to make choices, either single-digit choices, or multiple-digit choices (ending with the # button). Choices can include transferring the call to a live operator.

Powerful To-Do List
PhoneHerald can create and manage a To-Do List based on the results of certain calls. Calls can be set up such that certain choices available to the called person cause a To-Do to be entered. For example, a patient could request call-back if they could not make an appointment. Also, incomplete calls can become To-Dos for future follow-up.

Email Options
PhoneHerald can be configured to email you when certain events happen - like when someone wants a call-back, leaves a message, or if a call cannot be completed after repeated attempts. You can also opt to receive messages when a set of calls is complete.

Scales for High-Volume Calling
PhoneHerald makes calls as fast as your phone line permits. PhoneHerald prepares to make calls in advance and keeps extra calls ready to go all the time, so that it acts quickly to start a new call once another is complete. And PhoneHerald's support for multiple phone lines allows it to scale well for higher-volume callers. PhoneHerald can make efficient use of multiple phone lines simultaneously with a single Mac.

Deliver Individualized Messages
PhoneHerald can be configured to deliver individualized messages. Messages can be customized with names, numbers, dates, schedule information, book titles, medical data, or any other personal information. Custom messages can be assembled using pre-recorded sound files or recordings made on the computer with a microphone, then individual information can be "merged" in using PhoneHerald's text-to-speech capability.

Data Import
PhoneHerald permits data import (names, numbers, dates, fields) from standard comma- and tab-delimited text files from databases, spreadsheets and contact managers.

Cost Effective
PhoneHerald runs on inexpensive standard Apple Macintosh computers, such as the Mac mini and iMac. A staff member can still use the PhoneHerald Mac as their desktop computer while calls are in progress. PhoneHerald does not require the use of expensive add-on cards or special hardware. Parliant provides a USB Telephone Adapter that connects to the computer and phone line. Multiple line support simply requires the connection of additional telephone adapters, and a standard USB hub.

Requirements:
Mac OS X 10.3 or later (no modem required)
PhoneValet - you must install version 3.0.5.

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