Shoppers Phone It In
Increasingly, retailers are luring customers to their stores through mobile phone apps that allow shoppers to say what’s on their mind and make purchases. In November, Wal-Mart launched a new app that lets consumers shop for products, and also delivers product comparisons, analysis about technical details, specific features, information about availability and user ratings. The [...]
Prompts That Haunt Me
I usually do things in a largely regret-free manner. I’ve gotten pretty expert at sizing up a potential voice project and assessing what its impact might be further down the road. There are distinct lines I won’t cross: gratuitous profanity, overdone eroticism, or overt racism. These give me pretty clear signals that I should probably respectfully recuse [...]
The National Cell Phone Ban, Part II
A national scientific poll by Poll Position found that 49 percent of Americans support a controversial proposal by the National Transportation and Safety Board (NTSB) to ban all drivers from using cell phones and other personal electronic devices except in emergency situations. The NTSB-suggested ban would also apply to hands-free use of cell phones and PDAs. [...]
A Voice For The Deaf
Speech technology has been an integral part of the enterprise for years, but what about on a more personal level, assistive devices for those with disabilities? The good news is that there are quite a few products on the market for the blind that incorporate text to speech technology. Talking calculators, alarm clocks, several computer [...]
A Rough Road Ahead
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) earlier this week called for a nationwide all-out ban on the use of cell phones while driving, with no exception for the use of hands-free headsets and interfaces. Such measures are likely to hit considerable roadblocks in the halls of state government across the nation, and rightly so. First, [...]
LVA Analysts: Cain Innocent, Sandusky Guilty
Herman Cain is innocent of charges that he had affairs, while Jerry Sandusky was not being truthful about his inappropriate involvement with boys, according to two Layered Voice Analysis Technology (LVA) experts. Lynn Robbins, president of Voice Analysis Technologies LLC of Madison, Wisconsin, and TJ Ward, president and CEO of Atlanta-based Investigative Consultants International, Inc., [...]
Phone Phobia
It’s not technically a phobia. It’s actually more of a preference, but despite the fact that voicing telephone systems is my bread and butter, I can’t actually stand talking on the phone. Is that odd? I’ve always been like that. I come from a family where we talk with brevity, stating our piece and then [...]
