Dan,

>>>Ed, can you throw out some good TAPI resources (books, mags, softwares, IDEs, etc)? I am going to be into some IVRS stuff soon here at work and want to get a leg up on "what to know" with using NT and TAPI.
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>>>Thanks.
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>>>>>Hello,
>>>>> Can i use TAPI to call out a phone(by voice modem without any telephony card) and when the receiver site pick up the phone, i can know it and then i wish to play a pre-recorded wave file and the receiver site can hear it.
>>>>> Anybody how to do it ? I did try the sample program get from some TAPI site, but i found that i can't know when the receiver pick up the phone. and how to play the wave file send through the modem and reach at the receiver site ?
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>>>>There's no analog sound input to standard voice modems through a multimedia control, so basically, no, you can't do what you want to do with a random junker modem. You'll need to purchase hardware that supports the full range of required TAPI functionality, which is generally not cheap.
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>>Steve,
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>>I'm not Ed <g> but one good place to go to is www.execletel.com. They also sell the TAPI boeards as well as a software development kit.
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>Has anyone had any success using FoxPro and the Execletel tools?

Yes, Craig Berntson has. I worked with him for several months just last year and I was in the process of doing just that. Sadly the project was cancelled and I literally just a day or so before I was going to start. Perhaps he's continued..