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Contact Everyone

Let's say you're chairing your company's Holiday party this year and there's a change of venue at the last minute.

Let's say you're the administrator for a school district that's being closed on account of a crippling ice storm and you need to let all of your students know of the closure.

Let's even say you're a hiring manager who has 35 job prospects you're supposed to interview in the next two days but your sister just had an emergency bypass and you need to notify the job seekers that they won't be interviewed until you get back.

In all three cases, it would take forever to call everybody. It would even take forever for a well-organized phone tree to get the word out to everyone involved.

Thankfully, you can get your message out quickly with a Voice Broadcast from CDYNE Notify! (which is sponsoring the content of this post). A Voice Broadcast is a message that goes out to those on your calling list - no matter if you only want a few of the phone numbers on your list called or thousands.

There are several great features to the Voice Broadcast provided by CDYNE Notify! First, you have the option of using sending either a pre-recorded message or text-to-speech Voice Broadcast. That's great if you need to contact a large group of people and you only have five minutes to tap your message into your laptop before your plane starts boarding. Second, it's wildly convenient. There's no software to download and install because you do everything right on their website. And, if you keep your phone list in an Excel spreadsheet, you can easily import those numbers to the website for you to use any time you need them.

Voice Broadcast is a great idea for anyone who needs to contact a large group of people. If you're in business, you may want to check it out. Full

Handheld Translation

Handheld talking translator on market in 2008

A Korean company is using technology licensed from HP to develop a handheld translator that can read printed text in foreign languages, HP has announced.

“The technology has potential applications as, for example, a reading aid for the blind and visually impaired, a translation tool for tourists traveling in foreign countries and an educational aid for those learning to speak another language,” the two companies said in a joint statement.

Korean developer Mouscan is working on a handheld device, dubbed Voiscan, that it expects to be commercially available worldwide by the end of 2008. Mouscan will pay royalties to HP for each device sold.

“This pioneering handheld scanning technology developed by HP allows us to bring to market a unique device that facilitates communication from text to audio anywhere, anytime and in any language”, said Yang Yu, chief executive officer of Mouscan, which he founded in 2002 to develop translation devices.

Voiscan relies on a scanning technology invented by HP Labs. The handheld device is dragged across foreign language text, recognizes words, and translates them. Text-to-speech software developed by Mouscan is used to convert the translated text into spoken words instantly. As the scanning area is relatively narrow, the device can also automatically stitch together multiple scans to form a complete image of a page before translating the text.

“HP welcomes partnerships with start-ups like Mouscan to help them find capital while giving new life to technology developed in HP Labs,” said Joe Beyers, vice president, Intellectual Property Licensing, HP. “Our IP licensing program is one way HP can help make useful technologies such as Voiscan widely available.”

Mouscan will pay royalties to HP for each device sold.

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