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Butler University is going to be rolling out a new unified messaging system, which will allow employees and students to receive voice mail via their e-mail as well as check e-mail via their phone.<\/p>\n

One of the early adopters during the pilot phase was using the latter feature, checking e-mail by phone. The text is converted to speech by the computer and read aloud to you. This colleague had received an e-mail from a colleague named Jesus (Spanish pronunciation). The computer told him \u201cYou have a new e-mail from Jesus\u201d (English pronunciation).<\/p>\n

Apparently his reaction was to think \u201cWow, this could be important \u2013 I had better listen to it and find out what he wants!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Butler University is going to be rolling out a new unified messaging system, which will allow employees and students to receive voice mail via their e-mail as well as check e-mail via their phone. One of the early adopters during the pilot phase was using the latter feature, checking e-mail by phone. 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