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Figure 12.12. Phoneshel's menus provide access to a variety of personal
information management functions.
access, a separate graphical things-to-do application absorbs the memo messages
into its own database. Finally, in addition to being able to transfer a voice message
to another user, a Phoneshell user can save an entire message to her calendar
by specifying a date; this is the nongraphical equivalent of audio cut and
paste.
The email-reading application is similar in many ways to Voiced Mail described
in Chapter 6 in that it uses touch tone input to control the reading of email
messages using speech synthesis. As with Voiced Mail, Phoneshell carefully pre­