So Carnival is running some TV commercials. This phone number is in the commercials. 866-234-4300 All three options route different places, one of which...
Good marks for using the brand well and using strong persona mostly appropriately (I don't really get the "Hey (something)" thing at the beginning)....
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - Real World Examples of Speech Enabled Self-Service When discussing issues related to a particular approach or dialog in a...
In the next couple weeks, the Association for Voice Interaction Designers will officially launch. AVIxD brings together practitioners of voice and multimodal...
Microsoft, g-d love'em. Validating themselves by proving that geeks love geekery<http://www.geekery.com/>: "a video demonstration of a similar system that...
Hi VUIDs - I thought the VUIDs group might be interested in the IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committee's quarterly newsletter. Each issue...
Hello everyone! As you've been getting hints of for a long time, a small team of us has been working creating the beginnings of the Association for Voice...
_The March 2009 issue of ASRNews is on-line_ (http://www.asrnews.com/backissue/validateuser.asp) Kudos to Silverlink for awesome financial results for 2008....
Does anyone have any documentation on studies that have been done for the gender of a voice. Specifically, I am looking for support (or dissent) on using a...
Hello all, I wanted to let our community know I'm re-starting my design consultation after three years with SpeechCycle. I’ve had three great years helping ...
Hey Phillip, Wishing you the best! Good luck in your new endeavor! Jay Jay Messina, Ph.D. President Behavioral Science Associates (V)908-233-9551 (F)...
Your timing of both the web site and your career change is auspicious. I can say, speaking as a both an advocate for vuid and as a potential consumer of the...
Hi Mike, The gender role preferences type of stuff was discredited a long time ago. Todd On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Mark Stallings ... -- !Todd erases a...
Just wanted to say in a public forum that Phillip is - to use the parlance of my youth - the Mac Daddy. Working with him over the past 2.5 years has been a...
Mark -- You can find all of the gender research in Cliff Nass's books "Wired for Speech" and "The Media Equation." Todd -- I'd be interested in the background...
Ted, How was it discredited? Was there a study done then published that discredited gender preferences? What I am looking for is published proof one way or...
Hi *Mark*, Crap, I got your name wrong. Apologies. :) I don't have anything off hand, but I'll see if I can did it up. I do recall seeing a few articles /...
Hi again, And to follow up to myself, probably the best thing you could do would be to get a number of auditions and run them by members of the target ...
Hi Crispin, Yes, I'd be interested in that background as well! I recall seeing some stuff about it in the past, but can't recall specific sources at the...
Hi there, How do you record the audio for your callers in sample calls / vision clips / etc? I figure that many of you are in a similar situation where you're ...
You can record through Skype. Or, over the phone, use an audio tap. Either way, cut the recording with any editor. ph On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 10:52 AM, Todd...
I know whoever does the Dept of Education's delinquent student loans outdial uses a very angry black man "named" "Mr. Smith" who sounds like he'll fire bomb...
Hi, Todd -- I actually always (and deliberately) bring in friends to record the "caller" portion, and promise them a spaghetti dinner or something like that....
For what it's worth, here are some references to get you started that I've found useful in the past: Naas, C., Moon, Y., Green, N. (n.d.). Are computers...