Article: Speech-Control of Personal Telephone Book Successfully Trialed by Daimlerchrysler Facility in Mannheim, Greater Efficiency and Cost-Effectiveness for Employee Communications.

BERLIN/MANNHEIM, Germany, November 9 /PRNewswire/ -- After six months of rigorous testing, a group of some fifty employees at the DaimlerChrysler Mannheim facility have now completed their trial and evaluation of an innovative, speech-controlled Personal Telephone Book. First deployment of the solution is planned for the first quarter of 2007. Motivating factors behind the trial are efforts to provide more efficient, cost-effective, and easier access to personal information, thereby cutting employee telephone costs and greatly reducing time spent searching for telephone numbers, E-Mail addresses, and typing SMSs.

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