EzVoice 3.3- Windows Telephone Voice message software.

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EzVoice 3.3

http://www.ezvoice.sunshinesoftsolutions.com/pages/download.htm

15 day free Trial, Price US$28.60

We all use the telephone, whether it’s to call the weakly 900 number to provide happy thoughts before bed time or to phone the relatives and say hello.

Those are the telephone calls you are actually around to answer or make, but what about when you are not home, and you are crawling on the desert sand in search of water, only to be fooled by a mirage of a Pepsi machine? Who then is going to be at your house recording the messages?

I present to you “EzVoice”

EzVoice, is voice mail software for your Windows PC, which takes phone calls, records them as wav files and allows you to listen to them from your PC or email.

Its Feature time, can’t touch this!

Caller ID, Address Book and Email Notification (Yes it’s faster than a pidgeon)

The software records the caller ID information from the phone call you just received and saves it in EzVoice. There is also an address book which allows you to add a custom caller or one that already called using the caller id information; it also allows you to customize a name which goes to a certain number. So instead of “Smith, John” showing up every time he called it would show up as, “mystery man” instead. But wait! There’s more! The one thing I absolutely LOVE about EzVoice is the ability to have EzVoice forward the caller ID information to your Email, It lets you know if the caller Left a message or if they didn’t, it also attaches a copy of the messag“EzVoice: Satan called from 6666666666 on 06/06 at 06:06PM, and left a message.”

As you know you can text message a phone (at least on Verizon) by typing in the phone number @vtext.com, the same applies here, this allows you to text message your cell phone to inform you someone called your home. They probably could have just called your cell phone, but not everyone wants everyone to know their cell number. I use it for my business, all my customers call my house phone and I just check my text messages after my service call. While viewing the text message on my phone I can hit dial, which automatic puts the included phone number into the dial line, all I have to do is hit ok, and a dialing I go. I have it Text message my phone but I also have it send a 2nd copy to a special Gmail account with a copy of the actual message.

Remote Retrieval

This feature is a little near and dear to my heart. When I first purchased EzVoice 3.1, the voice prompts got the job done but they were hard to understand and were created by a person whose first language was not English. For my own amusement I re-recorded all 72 voice prompts using my own voice. I then sent a copy of them to the creator of EzVoice and by version 3.2 I was now and still am the voice of EzVoice. Included at the bottom of this review, is a sample.

I just can’t say enough how much I love this software or I don't know what I would do without it, the current version of EzVoice is version 3.3.

Technical Information

To send out the Email and text messages mentioned above you need to have access to an SMTP server. If you do not have one, you can download Free SMTP server from this location and create your own http://www.softstack.com/freesmtp.html (a very handy little app).

You also need a voice modem which supports Caller ID, in order for that feature to work. You just have to make sure the modem says it supports Caller ID. Sorry, I wish I remember which one I bought.

Beep!

This is what it looks like when a phone call comes in. In this case I have ezvoice running on my server. The same server also running my outdoor security camera, hence the photo of the blue recycle container. For the photo I called my home phone from google voice voice.

This is what it looks like when the text message arrives on my cell phone.

All I have to do is click send and it puts the phone number in my phone so they are ready to get called back.

This is what it looks like when it arrives in my gmail box.

Prompt.zip

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I'm going to give this old thread a little bump. Just to bring it to the attention of people who run their own computer repair shop and have a phone in the office that the customers call. This software is great for alerting you in the field when someones calls the office.

I've also updated the review with some new pictures and other things showing you what it looks like when the computer picks up the call and the format of the text message when it arrives on your cell phone.