News tagged with voice
Switching cell phones takes emotional toll
Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets
Nov 18, 2009 |
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She's gone. We were the best of friends, constant companions -- literally, because I carried her day and night in the left-front pocket of my jeans. For five years we roamed the world together, or at least the United States, ...
Vonage to settle investigation involving 32 states
Nov 16, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Internet phone service provider Vonage Holdings Corp. has agreed to pay $3 million to 32 states to settle an investigation into some of its business practices.
Google voice search learns Chinese
Nov 02, 2009 |
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Google's voice search tool now understands Chinese. The Internet giant announced on Monday that users of Nokia S60 series mobile phones could now search the Internet using voice commands in Mandarin Chinese.
Google Voice 'light' works with existing cell phone numbers
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Google Voice, the service that can route calls to multiple phone numbers and access voice mail, is now available on users' existing cell phone numbers.
Google Voice service blocks fewer than 100 numbers
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. says its free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to fewer than 100 phone numbers likely to be adult chat lines and free conference call services.
Brain responds to human voice in one fifth of a second
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Psychology researchers have found the sound of the human voice can be recognised by the brain in less than one fifth of a second.
Researcher 'Shows the Voice' in Swallowing Disorders
Oct 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Using his background in aerospace engineering and signal processing, a UC researcher is finding new ways to help physicians listen to their patients: by teaching them to look at the signal, ...
Google expands availability of its free voice mail
Oct 27, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Google Inc. wants to answer your mobile phone calls when you can't or just don't want to talk.
Study Shows Thousands of Consumer Internet Connectivity Devices Are Vulnerable to Attack
Technology / Computer Sciences
Oct 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Following news reports that 65,000 modems and wireless routers used by Time Warner Cable customers are vulnerable to attack by hackers, a Columbia University expert on computer security and ...
Teacher talk strains voices, especially for women
Oct 26, 2009 |
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Teachers tend to spend more time speaking than most professionals, putting them at a greater risk for hurting their voices -- they're 32 times more likely to experience voice problems, according to one study. And unlike singers ...
Researchers Use Cell Phones to Collect Real-Time Data on Substance Use
Oct 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scenario: A group of friends are drinking at the local pub, when one gets a cell phone call. He takes it in a quiet corner; nothing unusual. But this isn't a "What's Up" call from a friend: It's a "What-are-you-doing-right-now?" ...
As Google, AT&T feud simmers, a partnership waits in the wings
Oct 20, 2009 |
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It's not often that phone sex lines and Benedictine nuns enter into debates on telecommunications industry regulation, but AT&T Inc. and Google Inc. are making it happen.
Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey calls
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Infants as young as five months old are able to correctly identify humans as the source of speech and monkeys as the source of monkey calls, psychology researchers have found. Their finding, which appears in the latest issue ...
FCC launches probe of Google Voice service
Oct 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Federal regulators will look into complaints by AT&T Inc. that Google Inc.'s free messaging and calling service, Google Voice, blocks calls to rural communities where local phone companies charge ...
Bing search gets vocal on new Samsung mobile phone
Oct 07, 2009 |
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Bing is getting vocal on a new Samsung mobile phone that lets people command Microsoft's Internet search engine by talking.
