Voice Notification: What hardware do I need?

TopView 6.25 dropped support for voice notifications using TAPI modems and it will not be supported for future versions

Due to the dwindling hardware and OS-level support for these devices we no longer support TAPI as a notification method. We recommend using VOIP over TAPI notifications due to the ease of setup and dramatic difference in reliability between the two. See TopView's VOIP Notification page for more information on voice notification via VOIP, including making VOIP calls over an analog phone line.

If accessing a SIP server is not possible due to your system's network setup, you can still make calls through an analog line through an IP-PBX device. See our recommended voice call out devices page for more information.

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