Voxeo and Voice Architects Announce Voice User Interface Design, Analysis and Tuning Services

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Seminars Offered on Embedded Design
with a Voice User Interface

Seminars Offered on Embedded Design
with a Voice User Interface 08/18/2004 03:18 AM
Training targets developers implementing speech I/O through low cost chips [PRWEB Aug 18, 2004]

Voice Overs For Telephone Greetings,
Interactive Voice Response, Auto
Attendants, On-hold, and Voice Messaging
Systems

Voice Overs For Telephone Greetings,
Interactive Voice Response, Auto
Attendants, On-hold, and Voice Messaging
Systems 12/30/2004 05:20 AM
Voice over talents that specialize in recording telephone applications such as voice messaging, auto attendants, interactive voice response, on-hold messaging, voice broadcasts, and voice greetings can be found at Interactive Voices, meeting the needs of corporate entities and not for profit organizations. Voice over talent are available to record telephone scripts for every day use and for special events, enabling employers to brand their company and service clients with consistent and persuasive marketing. [PRWEB Dec 30, 2004]

User Interface Design for Web
Applications: It's a Different World
from Web Site Design

User Interface Design for Web
Applications: It's a Different World
from Web Site Design 11/15/2003 04:25 AM

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User interface design for web
applications: It’s a different world
from web site design

User interface design for web
applications: It’s a different world
from web site design 11/13/2003 04:16 AM

Voice-analysis software listens for love

Voice-analysis software listens for love 02/12/2004 08:53 PM
San Jose Mercury News Feb 13 2004 0:39AM GMT

CIA Analysis Finds 'Most Likely' Voice
of Zawahri

CIA Analysis Finds 'Most Likely' Voice
of Zawahri 12/20/2003 02:30 PM
Reuters via Wired News Dec 20 2003 12:35PM ET

Create your voice model with Sakrament
Personal Voice Master

Create your voice model with Sakrament
Personal Voice Master 09/15/2004 02:01 AM
Sakrament company announces the release of Sakrament Personal Voice Master (PVM) 2.0. [PRWEB Sep 15, 2004]

SimpleConnect IP Voice Challenges
Incumbents in Enterprise Voice Market

SimpleConnect IP Voice Challenges
Incumbents in Enterprise Voice Market 12/19/2004 03:09 PM
Delivers savings of over 50% with business-class quality [PRWEB Dec 16, 2004]

iPod Voice Recorders: Griffin iTalk
Takes The Lead In Sound-Quality Race
With Belkin Voice Recorder

iPod Voice Recorders: Griffin iTalk
Takes The Lead In Sound-Quality Race
With Belkin Voice Recorder 08/19/2004 11:52 AM
By Cyrus Farivar, Macworld (via MyAppleMenu)

User Interface Design

User Interface Design 06/14/2002 12:15 PM
"(...) good design always involves a process of compromise."

Mac User Interface Design for New
Developers

Mac User Interface Design for New
Developers 10/10/2002 09:55 AM

User Interface Design for Programmers

User Interface Design for Programmers 05/31/2004 11:33 PM

I read Joel Spolsky's book over the weekend: "User Interface Design for Programmers." This is an excellent guide to usability — for client apps and for Web development.

The strength of the book is that it doesn't start by presenting many hard-and-fast rules, but instead concetrates on general concepts that you really need to understand to develop an effective user interface. People Can't Read. People Can't Remember. People Can't Control the Mouse. Design for Extremes. These principles then naturally lead to more specific guidelines.

For example: you know how when you first learn CSS, you put a textarea rule in your sheet to change the font in text boxes from that ugly monospaced, Courier font to some slick variably-spaced font? Looks nice, sure, but Joel demonstrates how hard it can be to edit for some people. Sure, it's fine for you, but you're young and you have an optical, USB mouse, and you've been using computers since you got out of diapers.

Sadly, however, everyone isn't you. Some users don't have your eyesight, motor skills, or experience, and your tiny little variably-spaced font is now a problem for them. Lower-case L's, for instance, are now just one pixel wide. A lower-case I differs from a lower-case L by only a single pixel. If two lower-cased L's are next to each other ("allegory"), there's only one pixel of "gutter" space between them — ever tried getting the text insert cursor to land exactly between them? You're literally trying to hit a 1-pixel wide target.

Upon reading this, I went back to an app I was writing and changed all text inputs and text areas to Courier New, 12px. It doesn't look as nice, but I'll concede that it's easier and clearer to edit. Sometimes usability comes at the price of how things look, but so it goes.

Joel touches on the user model and system model that I read about earlier this year in Don Norman's "The Design of Everyday Things." Simply put, a user forms a model in his or her head about how your app works. That model may have nothing to do with how it really works (the system model), but that's your problem, not the user's. Your goal as an interface designer, is to make the implementation model (how the interface represents the system model) match the user model as closely as possible.

The book is full of good ideas and really solid, non-frilly advice. Joel's obvious experience saturates every page (I gather he did the UI for the ISP Juno, and was on the Microsoft Excel team). It's full-color with glossy pages and scads of screen caps.

I'll finish here by hand-typing an excerpt that's so good I'll risk the copyright lawyers. It addresses a point I talked about a while ago when I was struggling with the non-confirmity of the Linux interface.

I've seen companies where management prides themselves on doing things deliberately different from Microsoft. "Just because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," they brag, and then proceed to create a gratuitouisly different interface from the one that people are used to. Before you start chanting the mantra "just because because Microsoft does it, doesn't mean it's right," please consider two things.

One, even if it's not right, if Microsoft is doing it in a popular program like Word, Excel, Windows, or Internet Explorer, millions of people are going to think that it's right, or at least fairly standard. [...and] if you refuse to do it on some general religious principle that Bill Gates is the evil Smurf arch-nemesis Gargamel then you are just gratuitiously ruining your program so that you can feel smug and self-satisifed [...]

Two, don't be so sure it's not right. Microsoft spends more money on usability testing than you do; they keep detailed statistics based on millions of tech support phone calls; and there's a darn good chance that they did it that way because more people can figure out how to use it that way.

As much as I hate to admit Microsoft is right, amen to that.

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Notes and Tips: User Interface Design

Notes and Tips: User Interface Design 06/05/2005 11:12 PM
Good Mac user-interface design isn't always easy....

Mapping User-Interface Design to
Cultural Dimensions

Mapping User-Interface Design to
Cultural Dimensions 09/16/2002 06:39 AM

Voice over Internet services explained

Voice over Internet services explained 12/11/2003 08:32 PM
AP via New Jersey Online Dec 11 2003 7:18PM ET

CRTC may regulate Internet voice
services

CRTC may regulate Internet voice
services 09/22/2004 02:52 PM
CTV.ca Sep 22 2004 6:45PM GMT

Voice Partners Launches UK Design
Practice, Studio and Training Facility
in London

Voice Partners Launches UK Design
Practice, Studio and Training Facility
in London 06/05/2005 11:16 PM
Voice Partners announces the opening of its UK subsidiary and design office. The new office for Voice Partners Limited will be located in the Premises Studios complex in Shoreditch, East London. [PRWEB Jun 3, 2005]

Ofcom consults on development of new
VOIP voice services

Ofcom consults on development of new
VOIP voice services 09/07/2004 03:37 AM
PublicTechnology.net Sep 7 2004 7:48AM GMT

New Advanced User Interface Design and
Usability Seminars Help Teams Deliver
Usable Software

New Advanced User Interface Design and
Usability Seminars Help Teams Deliver
Usable Software 03/14/2005 05:57 PM
New Cutting Edge Seminar Empowers Design Teams to Deliver Highly Usable Software [PRWEB Mar 11, 2005]

Touchstone Technologies Announces
WinEyeQ, an Intelligent, Affordable
Software-Based VoIP (Voice and Video
over IP) Call Monitoring and Analysis
Tool for SIP and H.323

Touchstone Technologies Announces
WinEyeQ, an Intelligent, Affordable
Software-Based VoIP (Voice and Video
over IP) Call Monitoring and Analysis
Tool for SIP and H.323 06/23/2004 04:22 AM
Touchstone Technologies, Inc. of Hatboro, PA (formerly Delta Protocol Test Solutions) announces the release of WinEyeQ, an affordable software-based monitoring and analysis tool for SIP and H.323-based traffic. WinEyeQ is designed to aid in the monitoring and troubleshooting of VoIP signaling paths and assuring the quality of media streams on Voice and Video over IP networks. [PRWEB Jun 23, 2004]

Software Engineer - User Interface,
Enterprise Services Team

Software Engineer - User Interface,
Enterprise Services Team 04/09/2004 06:46 PM
Amazon.com - United States, Washington, Seattle (2004-04-09)

CRTC hearings explore need to regulate
Internet voice services

CRTC hearings explore need to regulate
Internet voice services 09/21/2004 04:47 PM
CNEWS Sep 21 2004 9:29PM GMT

Slovak Telecom selects Alcatel to
deliver voice services over IP

Slovak Telecom selects Alcatel to
deliver voice services over IP 04/20/2004 12:33 PM
Wi-Fi Technology Forum Apr 20 2004 4:47PM GMT

Joint Venture to Market Wireless Voice
and Data Services in the U.S

Joint Venture to Market Wireless Voice
and Data Services in the U.S 03/25/2005 09:18 PM
Technology News Daily Mar 26 2005 1:56AM GMT

LogicTree to Voice Automate Citco Mutual
Fund Services Help Line

LogicTree to Voice Automate Citco Mutual
Fund Services Help Line 09/09/2004 03:46 AM
LogicTree Corporation announced today it was awarded a contract by Citco Mutual Fund Services (CMFS) to provide voice automation for its Shareholder Servicing and Transfer Agency division. [PRWEB Sep 9, 2004]

Research and Markets: Market
Demographics For Voice Facility Managed
Services

Research and Markets: Market
Demographics For Voice Facility Managed
Services 04/14/2005 02:22 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c15571) has announced the addition of Market Demographics For Voice Facility Managed Services to their offering. [PRWEB Apr 14, 2005]

UK National Air Traffic Services spends
GBP32m on integrated data & voice comms

UK National Air Traffic Services spends
GBP32m on integrated data & voice comms 08/23/2004 02:48 AM
PublicTechnology.net Aug 23 2004 7:22AM GMT

Research and Markets : Voice Facility
Management Services from an Australian
Point of View

Research and Markets : Voice Facility
Management Services from an Australian
Point of View 04/02/2005 05:25 AM
Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/reports/c14867) has announced the addition of Australian Voice Facility Management Services to their offering. [PRWEB Apr 2, 2005]

INET Pricing Announces Enterprise Voice
over IP Services Nationwide and Offers
30 Day Trial

INET Pricing Announces Enterprise Voice
over IP Services Nationwide and Offers
30 Day Trial 07/28/2004 02:21 AM
INET Pricing, runs an Internet site for quoting business and residential data and voice services, announced today they have rolled out a nationwide Voice over IP product for business customers which includes a free trial. [PRWEB Jul 28, 2004]

Unified Technologies Group, Inc. Delayed
in Efforts to Bring Voice Services to
Hawaii

Unified Technologies Group, Inc. Delayed
in Efforts to Bring Voice Services to
Hawaii 09/24/2004 03:04 AM
Unified Technologies Group, Inc. has been delayed bringing voice services to Hawaii util the first quarter of 2005. A break down in contract negotiations with a local company to deliver the service has delayed the market entry for Unified Technologies Group, Inc. and has given Verizon and Oceanic a slight time advantage. [PRWEB Sep 24, 2004]

Voxeo and Paraxip Technologies Announce
Partnership to Offer Standards-Based IVR
and Call Control

Voxeo and Paraxip Technologies Announce
Partnership to Offer Standards-Based IVR
and Call Control 09/13/2004 03:17 AM
Partnership extends the reach and availability of CCXML and SIP-based call control for IVR solutions [PRWEB Sep 13, 2004]

Leaders of Wireless Industry Publish
Specifications for Extending Mobile
Voice and Data Services Over WLANs

Leaders of Wireless Industry Publish
Specifications for Extending Mobile
Voice and Data Services Over WLANs 09/07/2004 02:26 PM
WebProNews Sep 7 2004 4:54PM GMT

St. Louis Telecom, LLC Now Offers
Broadband Voice Services to the Local
Small Business and Residential Market

St. Louis Telecom, LLC Now Offers
Broadband Voice Services to the Local
Small Business and Residential Market 06/27/2004 03:01 AM
St. Louis Telecom, LLC announced today the release of a leading edge Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) product suite that is specifically designed for the small to medium sized business as well as the residential customer - currently available in 24 states. [PRWEB Jun 27, 2004]

Talk2Rep Call Centers Launches IQDIAL
Voice Broadcasting Services for Large
Retail and Healthcare Provider

Talk2Rep Call Centers Launches IQDIAL
Voice Broadcasting Services for Large
Retail and Healthcare Provider 12/07/2004 04:21 PM
Talk2Rep call centers offers Sears and other retailers a customer friendly automated voice broadcasting solution to reach out to it's customers. Talk2Rep's IQDIAL will service the retail giant and others with [PRWEB Dec 7, 2004]

Voice recognition without the voice

Voice recognition without the voice 05/05/2004 11:19 AM
And now, from the people who gave you the I-mode Internet phone, we bring to you a speech-recognition system so revolutionary that it is, in fact, speechless. NTT DoCoMo Inc. showed the prototype system during a rare tour of its Yokosuka, Japan, R&D center.

Ergonomics by Design Ltd. Combines
Acoustic Magic’s Voice Trackertm Array
Microphone With Sony Handheld Recorders
as a Portable Meeting Recording Tool

Ergonomics by Design Ltd. Combines
Acoustic Magic’s Voice Trackertm Array
Microphone With Sony Handheld Recorders
as a Portable Meeting Recording Tool 03/17/2005 03:37 AM
Ergonomics by Design, Ltd. often uses Sony digital recorders to record meetings and interviews in varying conference rooms without very much notice as to when the discussions would start.The Voice Tracker™, used as an auxiliary microphone through the 3.5 mm jack on the handheld digital recorder, provided an ideal solution for this application due to its light weight, its portability and its immense recording range. [PRWEB Mar 15, 2005]

Indiana Firm Launches Voice over IP
(VoIP) Service, Partners with Covad for
Virtual PBX, Call Management, and Data
Services with QOS Standards and SLA's

Indiana Firm Launches Voice over IP
(VoIP) Service, Partners with Covad for
Virtual PBX, Call Management, and Data
Services with QOS Standards and SLA's 02/05/2005 09:22 PM
CompStar Technologies has been appointed a Voice over IP (VoIP) partner by Covad. Indianapolis and South Bend, Indiana, will be the sites for free VoIP seminars. Offerings include virtual phone switch (also called IP Centrex or outsourced PBX) services. [PRWEB Feb 4, 2005]

HBF Group, Inc. Announces I-911™ Voice
Over IP (VoIP) Solution for VoIP
Providers and the Emergency Services
Industry

HBF Group, Inc. Announces I-911™ Voice
Over IP (VoIP) Solution for VoIP
Providers and the Emergency Services
Industry 06/14/2004 02:24 AM
i-911 addresses the deficiencies in other commercially VoIP 911 available solutions by providing a 911 emergency calling service that is deployable immediately , requires little or no change to the public safety answering points (PSAPs). i-911 offers a significant improvement over other VoIP solutions as it delivers accurate call back and location information from a 9-1-1 call in real-time. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2004]

The mobile content and entertainment
services market reached about EUR3
billion in 2003 – less than 3% of total
mobile service revenue and less than 19%
of non-voice revenue

The mobile content and entertainment
services market reached about EUR3
billion in 2003 – less than 3% of total
mobile service revenue and less than 19%
of non-voice revenue 09/02/2004 02:11 AM
[PRWEB Sep 2, 2004]
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Settlement of Computer Associates
accounting fraud investigation could be
near

Settlement of Computer Associates
accounting fraud investigation could be
near 09/20/2004 01:27 PM
San Francisco Chronicle Sep 20 2004 5:34PM GMT

Mutual-Fund-Investigation Complaint
Alleges Trading Fraud

Mutual-Fund-Investigation Complaint
Alleges Trading Fraud 07/16/2004 11:51 AM
Five former Prudential Securities brokers and their manager in Boston used fake identities and other tactics to help investors make more than $1.3 billion in improper mutual fund trading, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a new complaint.

MyQPU Announces Partnership with Leading
Ringtone and Mobile Services Site
Ringingphone.com

MyQPU Announces Partnership with Leading
Ringtone and Mobile Services Site
Ringingphone.com 08/27/2004 01:50 PM
MyQPU, the leading Internet site for camera phone users, announced today a partnership with leading mobile phone ring-tone provider Ringingphone.com. MyQPU will be providing an on-line gallery to host camera-phone images submitted by Ringingphone members and will provide cross-network image sharing services for members of the Ringingphone community. Ringingphone members will also be able to download gallery images for use as wallpaper and enter the numerous camera phone photo contests currently available on the MyQPU website. [PRWEB Aug 27, 2004]

Blogs, IM, VOIP IVR, and Speech Power
New Voxeo ExpressCRM Platform

Blogs, IM, VOIP IVR, and Speech Power
New Voxeo ExpressCRM Platform 03/14/2005 05:59 PM
“Next Generation” Customer Relationship Management platform builds upon four powerful new mediums of customer communication and interaction [PRWEB Mar 10, 2005]

Voxeo VoiceCenter 5.5 Platform Now
Supports W3C CCXML Last Call Working
Draft

Voxeo VoiceCenter 5.5 Platform Now
Supports W3C CCXML Last Call Working
Draft 04/30/2004 05:35 PM
XMLMania.com Apr 30 2004 8:38PM GMT

Voxeo Receives Communications Solutions™
Magazine’s “Product of the Year” Award

Voxeo Receives Communications Solutions™
Magazine’s “Product of the Year” Award 06/22/2005 02:30 AM
VoiceCenter Fusion Server Honored for Outstanding Innovation and Return on Investment [PRWEB Jun 22, 2005]

Preventive measures

Preventive measures 02/12/2004 11:29 AM

Novel security measures

Novel security measures 03/06/2004 02:01 AM

An article on SecurityFocus led me to this site about Port Knocking. Port Knocking is an interesting security technique in which a box sits online with no ports open to connections and awaits a specific sequence of connection attempts. A user wishing to connect to the box must first attempt to initiate connections to ports in a specific, secret order. Once they do, the box starts up the required service (such as an SSH daemon) on a designated port and allows the user to connect properly.

It's a pretty neat trick, and one that may well start showing up in backdoors and trojans in the future. It reminds me of a couple of other novel firewall related tricks: invisible firewalls and firewalls that are effectively turned off.

Microsoft will try to halt EU measures

Microsoft will try to halt EU measures 06/24/2004 04:15 PM
RTE Online Jun 24 2004 8:12PM GMT

Man Utd step up security measures

Man Utd step up security measures 04/20/2004 12:47 PM
Manchester United tighten security after media speculation the club was to be a terrorist target.

Warrants are security measures

Warrants are security measures 05/10/2004 10:17 AM
Bruce Schneier's latest op-ed asks us to consider the warrant process -- where a cop has to show evidence and follow procedure before invading your privacy -- is itself a security measure.

What we need are corresponding mechanisms to prevent abuse. This is the proper question: "Should we allow law enforcement to use new technology without any judicial oversight, or should we demand that they be overseen and accountable?" And the Fourth Amendment already provides for this in its requirement of a warrant.

The search warrant - a technologically neutral legal requirement - basically says that before the police open the mail, listen in on the phone call or search the bit stream for key words, a "neutral and detached magistrate" reviews the basis for the search and takes responsibility for the outcome. The key is independent judicial oversight; the warrant process is itself a security measure protecting us from abuse and making us more secure.

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PayPal "security" measures

PayPal "security" measures 04/01/2005 05:07 PM
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RE: PayPal "security" measures 04/05/2005 01:35 AM
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Clothier Measures Up in June

Clothier Measures Up in June 07/09/2004 11:46 AM
While other retailers struggle, catalog and Internet business have strengthened JoS. A. Bank.

NHS obesity measures 'failing'

NHS obesity measures 'failing' 05/25/2004 11:55 PM
The NHS's record on tackling obesity has been described as "woefully inadequate" in a report by MPs.

Topological Measures and Maps Of the Web

Topological Measures and Maps Of the Web 04/18/2005 08:38 AM

Topological Measures and Maps of the Web

Topological Measures and Maps Of the Web
http://informatics.indi ana.edu/fil/Web/

In this project Filippo Menczer and his researchers study the relationships between different types of Web topology based for example on hyperlinks, words, and page meaning, and how they affect the performance of ranking and crawling algorithms, such as InfoSpiders. This research extends prior work in which they characterized a necessary condition for effective autonomous browsing of any distributed hypertext database such as the Web in terms of a relevance autocorrelation measure. More recently they have used a brute force approach to map the relationships between lexical, linkage, and semantic similarity across billions of Web page pairs. This research is being applied to build models that may help understand how the scale-free distribution of Web links has emerged and how it can be exploited for designing more effective Web crawlers and search engines. This has been added to the articles section of Deep Web Research Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

Survey: Security measures pay off

Survey: Security measures pay off 06/13/2004 04:51 PM

US beefs up anti-terror measures

US beefs up anti-terror measures 12/22/2003 07:55 AM

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Fahrenheit's first weekend a success by
many measures

Fahrenheit's first weekend a success by
many measures 06/28/2004 03:10 PM

FTC Officials Wary of Spyware Measures

FTC Officials Wary of Spyware Measures 04/30/2004 07:46 AM

New Technology Measures Document Intent

New Technology Measures Document Intent 12/27/2004 05:42 PM
Sci-Tech Today Dec 27 2004 9:10PM GMT

FTC officials blast spyware measures

FTC officials blast spyware measures 04/29/2004 01:34 PM
Legislators counter that officials should be outraged over potential abuses of privacy and security through programs that serve ads and transmit information.

Traffic measures 'could hit broadband'

Traffic measures 'could hit broadband' 01/06/2004 07:59 AM
Manchester Online Jan 6 2004 6:56AM ET

CD Anti-Copying Measures Doomed

CD Anti-Copying Measures Doomed 11/26/2002 08:15 AM
"According to Microsoft's researchers computer technology is evolving too quickly for the music business to keep up."

Glimmer of hope in copyright measures

Glimmer of hope in copyright measures 07/11/2004 06:44 AM
SiliconValley.com Jul 11 2004 10:32AM GMT

M-Web intensifies anti-spam measures

M-Web intensifies anti-spam measures 12/10/2003 11:22 PM
Sunday Times South Africa Dec 10 2003 10:46PM ET

Voxeo and Voice Architects Announce Voice User Interface Design, Analysis and Tuning Services

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