These utilities provide telephony capabilities other than voice mail, such as:
- Reading your e-mail to you over the telephone
- Using CallerID to pop up a Contact entry
- Recording a sound file for transmission via e-mail
- Uploading phone numbers from your Contacts folder to your cellular phone
- Place phone calls to Outlook contacts
Tools
Formerly Personal Receptionist. Voice telephony software that allows you to listen and reply to Outlook messages over the phone and build your own phone attendant . Many other general telephony features and VBScript for customization. Supports Caller ID. Requires Outlook 98 or Outlook 2000. | |
System tray application to detect incoming calls and use Caller ID to pop up Contact details, even create new Contact and Journal entries. | |
Voice telephony software that displays Outlook contacts using CallerID, creates new contact records where needed and delivers incoming voice mail and faxes to your Outlook Inbox. | |
Make calls to Outlook contacts and record incoming calls in the Outlook Journal. Displays caller names for incoming calls. Supports English, German and Italian. Does not trigger Outlook email security update prompts. To integrate your PBX with your computers systems, check out ESTOS TapiServer. | |
Caller ID software compatible with various manufacturers' multi-line caller ID hardware to monitor many lines. Incoming calls can pop up Outlook contact records. Displays status of all lines, and provides detailed utilization reports. | |
Caller ID add-in for Outlook displays either the Caller ID or the related Outlook contact. For callers not in Contacts, you get the option of creating a new Outlook contact. Call logging and blocking also included. | |
Record spoken mail messages in MP3 format. Free version allows up to 30 seconds of recording. Commercial version allows unlimited recording time. Outlook 2000 or later. | |
An advanced in/out board with Outlook calendar integration giving the receptionists a complete overview of "who's out and who's back", both now and in the near future. | |
Create and send voice e-mail messages. | |
Ceptara's SkypeDialer is an Outlook 2007+ Add-in that provides a simple interface into the Skype Application to expedite Skype phone call set up, enable note taking, and track time using a Journal item timer. It adds a Call Manager that is launched via an Outlook Contact right context menu and through a new 'Call' button on a Contact window. The add-in integrates seamlessly with Ceptara's Organizer for Outlook. SkypeDialer is Freeware. | |
ITIL helpdesk with automated ticketing and issue tracking for support team to log, analyze, collaborate, track and escalate support requests in an organized and structured way in Outlook. Can auto-process incoming support requests, auto-assign technicians, enforce service level, set due date and send automated notifications to cut the overhead of manual tasks significantly. Comes with integrated Knowledge Base, Asset Tracking, SLA, Report builders and OLAP Statistical tools. Support for Skype, SMS and Phone calls. Includes Web Access sites for technicians and end-users. Improves your efficiency to enable faster response time. | |
Use the global TeleMessage messaging service to send messages from within Outlook to telephones (using a text-to-speech engine), fax machines, pagers, SMS devices, email addresses, and instant messaging applications. | |
Add-in to connect Outlook 2003 to VistaPoint Integrated Call Manager to pop up contact information for incoming calls. |
More Information
- To log a phone call to an Outlook contact
- Call Discrimination
- Voice Mail Services — some of these, both personal and enterprise, support Caller ID
- Michael Dunn’s TAPI Site – FAQ — FAQs and other resources from a TAPI developer and MVP
- Caller ID FAQ
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Last reviewed on Sep 10, 2011


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