8hertz Technologies GmbH - Speech-control of Personal Telephone Book auspiciously trialed by DaimlerChrysler ability in Mannheim, greater ability and cost-effectiveness for agent communications

Store this angel in big size09 November 2006, Berlin/Mannheim: After six months of accurate testing, a accumulation of some fifty advisers at the DaimlerChrysler Mannheim ability accept now completed their balloon and appraisal of an innovative, speech-controlled Personal Telephone Book. First deployment of the band-aid is planned for the aboriginal division of 2007. Motivating factors abaft the balloon are efforts to accommodate added efficient, cost-effective, and easier acceptance to claimed information, thereby acid agent blast costs and abundantly abbreviation time spent analytic for blast numbers, E-Mail addresses, and accounting SMSs,

The speech-enabled Personal Assistant, co-developed application the Connecta™ Solution from 8hertz Technologies GmbH in Berlin, provides a “One-Number” band-aid to break the key claiming of managing assorted abode books and blast lists that a archetypal agent saves in abstracted devices, i.e. PC, corpuscle phone, PDA, board phone, cardboard abode book, etc. DaimlerChrysler Mannheim estimates an boilerplate agent spends at atomic 30 account a day analytic for blast numbers and E-mail addresses. Using the Personal Assistant users charge alone bethink one blast number, for example, 0800 MYPHONE, which again connects anniversary alone user to their corresponding claimed blast and abode book. Once identified, the user can again seek for contacts in their abode book or seek for contacts in the absolute accumulated directory. The “Personal Assistant” synchronizes acquaintance lists amid corpuscle phones, Lotus, Outlook, and added accepted abode administration software. When the ambition acquaintance being is found, the user chooses to alarm or alternatively forward an SMS or E-mail to that contact. The SMS and E-mail are appropriately beatific application alone speech-commands. After anniversary call, SMS, or E-mail sent, the user consistently allotment to the Personal Assistant and never needs to adhere up, find, or bite new numbers. Thus one alarm to the “Personal Assistant” can crop assorted acknowledged contacts.

“Car companies are decidedly attuned to the needs of humans ‘on the road’ and convalescent advice processes,” explained 8hertz Marketing Director, Jackson Bond, “but while adaptable sales and abstruse workers see acute advance on their advice efficiency, the boilerplate board artisan in companies of any admeasurement aswell adventures actual results, both at their board or traveling to and from work. While at your desktop PC, you no best even charge to seek your CRM apparatus for acquaintance numbers. Just columnist the one button for the Personal Assistant.”

The band-aid is absolutely server-based, and appropriately absolutely absolute of any blast device. Jürgen Korn, Manager of Telecommunication at the Mannheim ability elaborates on the benefits: “The server-based accent acceptance allows announced acquaintance searches for names, companies, positions, departments, cities or any aggregate thereof. Users can about-face accessories after annoying about artful all their acquaintance numbers. They no best charge to accomplish assorted copies of numbers and addresses for the altered devices. And in case of annexation or accident of a corpuscle phone, all abstracts can be blocked instantly on the server with a buzz alarm from any added phone, application PIN affidavit or biometric articulation authentication. A Call-Back affection aswell allows advisers traveling abroad to use the cheaper rates. Also blast accouterments no best needs college anamnesis requirements to save numbers. And of advance this is a ample addition to added assurance while driving.”

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8hertz Technologies GmbH is one of Europe's arch articulation business enablers, alms award-winning avant-garde articles and applications for Blue-Chip companies, application speech-recognition to accomplish business processes added efficient. 8hertz has developed articles and solutions for telecom providers, acumen industry, call-centers, government, accessible transport, and auto manufacturers. 8hertz barter cover a allotment of others, Volkswagen, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, ABX Logistics, Ericsson, the State of Berlin, Hamburg Public Transport Company. For added information, amuse acquaintance 8hertz at www.8hertz.com.