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<title>Introduction</title>

<para>
This document describes how to program Voicetronix computer telephony
cards using the Voicetronix Voice Processing Board API (VPBAPI).
</para>

<para>
Unless otherwise stated, the term VPB (Voice Processing Board) will
refer to all Voicetronix cards.  The VPBs are programmed via the VPB
Application Programmer Interface, a set of C/C++ callable functions.
These are provided as a user-mode library (Linux & FreeBSD), or a 
Windows 32 bit DLL (Windows). This will be referred to as the VPBAPI, 
or just API.
</para>

<para>
For installation details please see the <filename>README</filename>
file for your operating system, located in <filename>vpb-driver/</filename>.
</para>

<para>
Please refer to the README files, driver source code, and
code examples for the latest information on using Voicetronix cards.
</para>

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