The Computer Telephony Product Group of Artisoft, Inc., (Cambridge, MA) was founded in 1990, and is dedicated to the development of easy-to-use applications and toolkits for computer telephony. The Telephony Product Group markets software and outsourced hardware products used in a variety of telephony applications including Interactive Voice Response (IVR), fax-on-demand, and voice mail.

Visual Voice pioneered the concept of component-based software in the telephony industry. The Computer Telephony Product Group introduced Windows-based development, an industry standard language (Visual Basic), and a no-runtime fee policy to the telephony world. Visual Voice products provide host, database, and network connectivity to telephony application developers by leveraging the strengths of Visual Basic and the Visual Basic third-party developer community. Late in 1993, the Computer Telephony Product Group launched Visual Voice which rapidly became the leading Windows telephony development tool in the industry. Visual Voice is a software toolkit that allows developers to easily build sophisticated PC-based telephony applications such as interactive voice response, voice mail, fax-on-demand, and automated outbound dialing. Visual Voice has won numerous industry awards including Computer Telephony Product of the Year, Byte Magazine Award of Excellence, Windows Magazine Win 100, and Visual Basic Programmer's Magazine Readers' Choice. In 1995, Dataquest ranked Stylus at #1 in market share (12.5%) of IVR systems shipped in North America.

(From STYLUS hompage)