1. Voice TimeShifting
With the unveiling of Voice Time Shifting technology (VTS) in last month’s ‘TeleTecTacTics’ (Issue 24, LearPress, mu..,Cobley, et al) it appears that the world of business may never be the same again. The technology permits delayed recording and interaction on any two-way call over private networks enabling each caller to delay responses to the other caller – in real-time – whereby the other caller never actually realises that the response received is anything other than instantaneous. “This takes latency to the other extreme,” said a spokesman, “enabling a two-minute call to stretch over five or ten minutes without either party knowing. This will truly enrich collaboration in the workplace.”
2. AutoTranslator
The above development got me looking at some of the other cutting edge capabilities currently changing life as we know it and making communications really into a way of sending and receiving messages. AutoTranslator™ enables callers to talk directly into a phone (desk-top, mobile, soft or smart) in their own language and have the words come out at the other end fluently in the language of the recipient. No language skills necessary.
Second generation releases will fine tune the dialect functionality such that an Oxbridge accent can be deployed (of particular use in city financial circles) or cockney dialects called upon to add credibility in, for example, broadcast and media.
3. Key Word Alert
Based on technology developed by the NSA in the USA, KWA is a programmable divert capable of pinpoint word recognition on calls up to distances currently of 75 miles. This makes it ideal for campus-style organisations, but less appropriate globally. Words such as ‘synergistically’, ‘fundamentally’, and ‘honestly’ can trigger an alert which diverts the call into auto-response so one need never listen to the hyperbolic ramblings of nominated key senior individuals again. Junior individuals are excluded due to the lower development phases of their lexicography.
4. Envirodjust
Here’s one for those who have long been asking the question, “When will the network be usable for anything more than communication?” Its functionality has long been defined by nothing more than voice, data, video, access to the cloud and so on but dependency for its reputation on these basic, somewhat boring, outmoded communicatera, has been wearing a bit thin. Now Envirodjust changes all that, using the network as a conduit for numerous smells, odours and fragrances based on essential oils that can take collaboration to new levels. Cooling systems on server mainframes, when reversed, can permeate motivational odours into the environment that workers don’t even know are there. Any Tier 1 network provider can advise more on this, as well as VTS, KWA and AutoTranslator™.
5. Awesome apps
It’s a wonderful world really. Other awesome apps in the pipeline, once you know where to look, include ‘GetMoreMum’; where mobile phones will instantly transmit replenishment orders to local supermarkets for any items running low in the larder; the astounding allergy alert app which sends a vibrate through the mobile when certain allergens are detected; and, finally, SnackIn which can produce productivity gains of up to 20%. SnackIn relays subliminal messages across the network to ensure that all employees receive the same influence at the same time, intoning that they have no hunger pangs at all. Organisations testing SnackIn have found numbers of workers stopping for lunch falling dramatically, facilitating the wholesale closure of canteen facilities and subsequent real estate savings.
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