Nihon Keizai Shimbun, Inc. has developed "Nikkei Tele-Fax" which is voice-fax information service using telephone/Fax and started its service in November, 1991. "Voice service" provides realtime information such as the latest stock prices in a voice. "Fax service" provides current awareness news of Nikkei Shimbun, the latest stock price information and others for customers by fax. This system is integrated including traditional data processing, voice processing, image processing, telephone switching operation. This paper describes background of the development, outline of the service, system organization, voice database and others.
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