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Social Media is the next big thing after search. There are billions of people surfing everyday on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. If you own an online or offline business and want to expand your reach, you may already know that there is huge potential in social media.
But the problem is there are so many things to be taken care of. There are many platforms and each one has its own rules and restrictions. What you may do is to hire social media professionals and pay huge sums of money to them while still not understanding any of the technical details. Or what else you can do is to get a social media organizer tool and then let it take care of everything.
eClincher is one of the social media automation tools that I came across recently. This tool looks promising. The great thing about this tool is that it has powerful features while still easy to use and very user friendly. Much like any other social media software, this one is also paid. But the good news is you can try it for 14 days for free and see if it fulfills your requirements or not.
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Scheduling Posts on your Social Media Pages: This is an obvious one but the way their team designed the user interface is very intuitive and user friendly. And it also supports posting single post on multiple days. Social Media Platforms include Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Instagram and Pinterest.
One Place Analytics for your Website/Blog/Social Media Pages: This is one of the best things about this tool that it lets you see all the analytics data in just one place. You don't have to go to different places to see the results, eClincher lets you visualize all the data beautifully at one place. This tool even supports Google Analytics integration with real time analytics.
Custom Feed and Inbox: Custom feed is another great feature which allows you to target and interact with your potential buyers or customers on the internet. All you have to is to enter the user interests, profession etc. and it will give you a list of people to whom you should interact.
Universal Inbox is also a great feature which lets you see all social media activity at one stop. You don't have to login to different accounts and websites. All you got to do is to head over to Inbox and there you will see all the notifications and messages for your pages and profiles. Then you can reply from there.
These are some of the features that I liked and can list as of now. Let me know how do you manage your social media and what kind of features would you like to see in your perfect social media software. You can go ahead and try the 14 day trial for free at their website and see if you like it or not.
Advantages of Linux Hosting
Friday, November 21, 2014 Webmaster Zone 1 comment
Friends! When it comes to the online businesses, then a person is always investigator of the best web hosting brand present out there on web according to their uses. However, if you had also done it ever, then had you noticed the server's operating system options? Usually every web host offers two types of servers- Linux and Windows.
Linux servers are highly famous among the web developers, online entrepreneurs and other eminent internet personalities. So, what's that important about Linux hosting, that people opt to choose it over the windows hosting. So, this post runs around the advantages of Linux hosting. Yeah you can also wait till black, for better black friday web hosting deals 2014
Linux hosting is an open source that is the very strong point of Linux hosting. When used with proper tools of hosting, Linux hosting servers to provide very fine scalability, reliability, speed and characteristics. So, for the detailed judgment have a look on the advantages of the Linux hosting.
Advantages of Linux hosting
Lower Cost Factor
As told above, the Linux operating system is free of the cost for the web developers and same is the case with the Linux hosting, the people who have little technical knowledge can enjoy the various free services that come with Linux hosting packages. File Server, Web Server, DNS Server and FTP are free for download.
The web entrepreneurs choose Linux hosting over the Windows hosting due to the WordPress, Drupal, Joomla and phpBB scripts, easily getting installed on the servers. So, the advantage of linux hosting, saves a lot of money for the entrepreneurs which is great factor for them.
Although the hosting companies offer many features with the Linux servers so that no need of much technical knowledge is required. The talented web programmers can modify, improve and distribute the service because of the open platform of Linux servers.
Linux hosting offers high degree of flexibility to the users. The flexibility can be interpreted in the the terms of the hosting capabilities of the e-commerce applications, a number of websites and multimedia applications too. Moreover, it can be modified and the new things could be added accordingly very easily.
High Degree of Compatibility
Linux web hosting brand is highly compatible softwares and other operating systems.Linux users can share its reputation of being compatible with other codes and scripts. It should be noted that the hardware and software parts should be compatible with each other so that the users get the uninterrupted service.
If a user codes its website in Linux and uses the Windows OS based server than there will be no problems encountered by him.
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The performance of the Linux hosting can be judged by the high speed of the servers. When compared to the Windows servers, the Linux hosting and servers tend to handle more data and traffic and applications simultaneous than the Windows.
Linux hosting comes with basic hosting and users have the freedom to increase its speed and performance by installing PHP, MySQL and Perl Script such that the users will be benefited by productivity and performance of the websites.
A host is reliable if it provides good uptime. The Linux hosting provides high and constant uptime that means the machines have the high probability of in operation than to be showing downtime.
That is ultimately useful for the users as they bring huge traffic for the entrepreneurs who already use internet and hosting for their business expansion.
As a hosting provider, software fixes, maintenance and server upgrades are necessary to get rid of obsolete components to boost server performance in the long run and reduce hosting costs (however, let's face it, anyone who's connected to the Internet can experience a security breach). When it comes to reliability, Linux arguably outguns Windows since it was one of the early platforms to host websites as the Internet got started.
Security is also the major concern of a user who expects the high degree of security from its host. The security issues are handled quite brilliantly by the Linux hosting.
The Linux hosting servers have daily backups and those are automatic. The attacks are handled furiously by the programs running on the servers. The data of the users are safe and secure on the servers of Linux hosting companies. If a person needs highest security then please be choosy in terms of brands as so many brands are offering Linux hosting at different prices. So, the increase in the prices enhances the features set too.
So, guys! The above advantages of Linux hosting would be quite sufficient for you to choose Linux hosting over the Windows hosting.
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Sunday, June 22, 2014 Windows Phone No comments
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Although, this whole documentation is available on Windows Phone website and users also get an option in your ringtone settings to see how to add new ringtones. But as I found out that windows phone's website lists too many methods and things on a single page and for me, it was a little complex and hard to understand. Because on windows phone, it gives you various options to set custom ringtones such as downloading and setting ringtones by using Windows Phone Apps or by using Windows Phone Desktop app's sync feature.
But to my personal taste, I don't like downloading separate files and apps just to add ringtones and its also a little time consuming and complex to move ringtones via Windows Phone Desktop app.
Therefore, I instead prefer a very simple method. And that method is connect your phone and move the mp3 file that you would like to set as a ringtone to your phone. And that's it. That's how easy it is to set a custom ringtone on any Windows Phone such as Nokia, HTC and Samsung. Although, don't worry if it doesn't make any sense to you. Following is the step by step how to tutorial on how to add custom ringtones to windows phones.
How to Add Custom Ringtones to Your Windows Phone:
- Connect your phone to your computer via Data cable.
- Open My Computer and under portable devices, select 'Windows Phone'.
- Now in Windows Phone, you will see two folders, one would be Phone and one would be SD card or something like that. Double click on Phone.
- Now go to Ringtones folder.
- Now leave the ringtones folder as is and open a new explorer window or my computer and go to the folder where your mp3 or music file is located.
- Select and drag your desired mp3 file to the Ringtones folder window which we left before.
- Make sure that you can see your music file in the Ringtones folder now.
- Disconnect your phone and go to Settings - Ringtones + Sounds.
- In Ringtone menu, select the drop down menu and under custom label, you will be able to find your music file.
- Select that file and you're done.
I hope it will make sense to you and you will be able to add and set custom mp3 files as ringtones on your windows phone. Although, I know that you can also move your music files from your SD card to ringtones folder by using Files app in Windows Phone, I have tried that and unfortunately that doesn't work out for me. Let me know if that works for you or if you need any further help with your Windows Smartphone.
Features & Tech Specs of Amazon's New Fire Phone
Thursday, June 19, 2014 Amazon, Android, Technology News 2 comments
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Features of Amazon Fire Phone
- Dynamic Perspective: Amazon's new Fire phone is the only phone which comes with Dynamic perspective features in it. This means that this phone has a custom-designed sensor system that responds to how a user hold, view, and move the phone. With this feature, you can do a lot of things such as playing games along with the movement of the phone (no touch screen controls are required). You can tilt your phone in a specific direction (whether left or right) in order to see other menu options and shortcuts. The other big advantage of this feature is that it enables you to read through pages without a need of scrolling up or down. You just have to tilt your phone in up or down direction and it will scroll the page accordingly.
- Firefly: Fire phone comes with a Firefly button which instantly reads and identify various kind of texts and numbers and gives you detailed information and quick shortcuts to perform specific actions. For example, you can press Firefly button in front of a number written on a business card or flyer and Firefly will give you option to call on that number or save that as a contact. It works the same way for QR codes, web addresses and even artists, music tracks and books etc.
- Mayday Customer Service: Fire phone comes with Amazon's award winning customer support 'Mayday'. The great thing about the Mayday service on Fire phone is that a customer service representative can not only operate your phone but can also teach you how to use specific features by pointing out with arrows and marks.
- Advanced Fast Camera with Unlimited Photo Storage: Fire Phone comes with new 13 mega pixels camera for fast capturing and unlimited photos storage on cloud. Camera is capable of recording 1080p videos and have panorama and HDR. Fire phone have a dedicated camera button so you can turn on the camera in just a second even if the screen is off.
- Faster Performance: Amazon Fire comes with 2 GB of RAM and 2.2 GHz Quad Core 800 SnapDragon Processor which gives you very fast and powerful performance. Adreno 330 Graphic Processor provides better environment for playing Games. 4.7 Inch HD Display which makes it easy to read in all kind of lighits.
Phone features Fire OS 3.5 which runs Android in its Core.
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Tech Specs of Fire Phone:
Processor: 2.2 GHz Snapdragon 800
GPU: Adreno 330
Storage: 32 GB or 64 GB
Display: 4.7 Inch HD Display
Camera: 13 MegaPixels
Battery: 2400 mAh
OS: Fire OS 3.5.0
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Amazon Fire Phone is currently launched in United States only. Its currently not available in most of other Amazon's websites such as in Canada, UK, India etc. For United States, the phone is priced at USD 649.00 without any plan. Otherwise, AT&T customers can buy on their individual or family plans.
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Amazon Fire Phone is currently launched in United States only. Its currently not available in most of other Amazon's websites such as in Canada, UK, India etc. For United States, the phone is priced at USD 649.00 without any plan. Otherwise, AT&T customers can buy on their individual or family plans.
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How to Check Your Airtel Number?
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 Airtel Tricks, Mobile Tricks 2 comments
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Instead, you can have your Airtel phone number whenever you want, wherever you want. All you need to do is to send an empty text message or SMS to this number:59103 and that's it.
If you still didn't get it then follow these steps as given below:
- Go to Message menu in your mobile phone and start writing a new text message.
- In Send to or Number or recipient field, type this number: 59103.
- Leave the message body empty and hit the send button.
- You will instantly get a reply with your phone no. mentioned in the SMS.
Note: The message to 59103 is free of charge. So you don't have to worry :P
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What is Mass Communication?
As its name suggests, Mass Communications is a study of communicating with the masses. Although, that is not a proper definition of this field of Arts, we could say that in layman's terms. Technically speaking, Mass Communication is all about transmitting or giving information and then examining the effects of that message on the audience. Its about telling a story or sharing an opinion in order to persuade a large audience.
Therefore, mass communications is a very important course for those who are interested in working in careers such as Marketing, Advertising, Journalism and Public relations.
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For conveying or sending our messages to the desired audience, we make use of a channel or medium which is called mass media. The Television, Radio, Newspaper, Magazines and blogs on internet are all examples of Mass Media through which our message reaches the targeted audience.
The outcomes of studying mass communication are very vast. The mass communicators are not limited to use the techniques or methods during their work that they learned through Mass Comm but they become successful communicators in their everyday life. They know how to persuade others and how to effectively transmit your message to others.
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1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to the field of speech processing and, more particularly, to opening more applications to speech synthesis by using a printer driver architecture as a mechanism to feed data to a text-to-speech engine.
2. Description of the Related Art
Many applications include text-to-speech (TTS) processing capabilities, which permit each application to audibly present machine generated speech that has been automatically constructed from textual content present within the application. This TTS processing capability is especially useful for visually impaired computer users that have difficulty interpreting visually displayed content and for users of mobile and embedded computing devices, where the mobile and embedded computing devices may either lack a screen, possess a tiny screen unsuitable for displaying large amounts of content, or can used in an environment where it is not appropriate for a user to visually focus upon a display. An inappropriate environment can include, for example, a vehicle navigation environment, where outputting navigation information to a display for viewing can be distracting to a driver.
For most of these applications having TTS capabilities, the computer readable instructions responsible for providing the TTS processing capabilities are embedded within the code of the application itself, and can be accessed through a user interface specific to the application. For example, an "options" menu under a "tools" heading can open an interface dialogue box through which an application's TTS capabilities can be configured by a user.
Unfortunately, many applications lack text-to-speech capabilities. Notably included in these applications currently lacking TTS capabilities is a popular PDF reader and many text editing and word processing programs, such as the NOTEPAD application and the WORDPAD application. It is very cumbersome if not impossible for a user to convert content within an application that lacks integrated TTS capabilities into speech output.
For example, one technique to generating speech output is to "cut and paste" content from a first application that lacks TTS capabilities to a second application that includes TTS capabilities. After pasting the content into the second application, the TTS capabilities of the second application can be used to generate speech output. This approach is inefficient, is subject to manual user errors during the cut and paste process, consumes substantial computing resources such as RAM, requires a user to possess an application with TTS capabilities, and is generally cumbersome to implement.
Another approach is to generate a file in a format of the first application and to convert this file using a conversion application into an audio format, where the converted file includes encoded speech which has been generated by a speech-to-text engine based upon the content of the original file. For example, conversion programs exist that convert PDF formatted documents into MP3 formatted audio files, where TTS conversion of textual content included within the PDF file occurs during the conversion process.
The conversion approach has numerous shortcomings. First, the solution is limited to particular types of file formats, such as PDF formatted documents and MP3 formatted documents, and cannot be generally applied to in a file-format independent manner. Second, the solution requires a user to perform multiple steps that include: (1) saving content included within an open application to a file, (2) instantiating a conversion application, (3) selecting the saved file from the conversion application and providing a name and location for the new file, (4) executing the file conversion operation, and (5) using a third application to open the newly converted file, where the third application audibly presents the text-to-speech converted content. Consequently, like the cut and paste method, the file conversion method is inefficient and cumbersome for a user to utilize.
The present invention discloses a technique for generating text-to-speech (TTS) converted output from content within an instantiated application, even though the application can lack inherent TTS capabilities. Specifically, a text-to-speech output device can be used to generate speech output from application content responsive to a print command. That is, the TTS output device can be implemented as a print driver. Any application having print capabilities can select the TTS output device as an active printer and can then send (via a print command) content to the TTS output device. In one embodiment, a plurality of user configurable setting can be established for the TTS output device to control the behavior of the TTS generated output. These user configurable settings can be integrated within existing interfaces present for printers. For example, the user configurable settings can be accessed using a printer properties tab associated with the TTS output device.
The present invention can be implemented in accordance with numerous aspects consistent with material presented herein. For example, one aspect of the present invention can include a method for producing speech output. The method can include the steps of selecting a TTS output device from a plurality of available output devices. The selected output device can be associated with outputting content of an application responsive to a print command. According to the method, the print command can be detected, which results in the content of the application being conveyed to the selected TTS output device. The TTS output device can be associated with at least one text-to-speech engine. Upon content conveyance, at least a portion of the content can be automatically converted using the text-to-speech engine. The speech converted content can be outputted.
Another aspect of the present invention can include a graphical user interface comprising a printer selection dialog box. The printer selection dialog box can be configured to present a plurality of user-selectable printers. A user selection of one of the printers can cause the selected printer to be associated with a print command. Detection of the print command can result in content being conveyed to the selected printer. The printer selection dialog box can include at least one text-to-speech output device. The text-to-speech output device can be associated with a print driver compatible with other print drivers associated with the user-selectable printers. Detection of the print command when the text-to-speech output device is the selected printer can result in text contained within the conveyed content being text-to-speech converted and can result in text-to-speech converted output being audibly presented.
Still another aspect of the present invention can include a print driver comprising a software driver for a text-to-speech output device. The software driver can permit the text-to-speech output device to be selected as a printer. When selected as a printer and when initiated responsive to a print command, the text-to-speech output device can cause a least a textual portion of content selected for printing to be text-to-speech converted. The text-to-speech converted output can be audibly presented via an audio transducer.
It should be noted that various aspects of the invention can be implemented as a program for controlling computing equipment to implement the functions described herein, or a program for enabling computing equipment to perform processes corresponding to the steps disclosed herein. This program may be provided by storing the program in a magnetic disk, an optical disk, a semiconductor memory, any other recording medium, or can also be provided as a digitally encoded signal conveyed via a carrier wave. The described program can be a single program or can be implemented as multiple subprograms, each of which interact within a single computing device or interact in a distributed fashion across a network space.
There are shown in the drawings, embodiments which are presently preferred, it being understood, however, that the invention is not limited to the precise arrangements and instrumentalities shown.
The computing device 110 can include one or more drivers 114 stored within a data store 112. Each of the drivers 114 can be a program designed to interface a device. For example, the drivers 114 can include print drivers for interfacing with printer 120, fax 122, and TTS output device 124. In another example, the drivers can include keyboard drivers that permit the operating system of the computing device 110 to interface with an attached keyboard.
A user 118 of computing device 110 can issue a print command, which conveys content to be printed to a selected output device. For example, when the output device is printer 120, content can be conveyed from an application from which the print command was issued and sent to printer 120. The conveyance of content can be handled in accordance with specification defined by a print driver 114 associated with printer 120. The printer 120 can then print the content to paper or other print medium, such as a printable photograph paper, an envelope, or card stock.
When the selected output device associated with the print command is TTS output device 124, content can be conveyed to the TTS output device 124 in a manner specified by a driver 114 associated with TTS output device 124. Upon receiving the content, TTS output device 124 can TTS convert at least a portion of the received content from text into speech utterances. In one embodiment, the TTS output device 124 can utilize a TTS engine 125 to perform the TTS conversion operation. The TTS engine 125 can be a software program residing upon or local to the TTS output device 124 or can be a remotely located software program accessible to the TTS output device 124.
Once the TTS output device 124 generates speech utterances, the speech utterances can be audibly presented to user 118 via an audio transducer 116, such as a speaker. In one embodiment, instead of being audibly presented to user 118, the TTS engine can generate an audibly formatted file that includes the TTS utterances. For example, the TTS output can be digitally encoded within a file in an MP3 or other audio format. The location that the generated file is stored within can be a default location of a location specified by user 118. In yet another embodiment, the output from TTS output device 124 can be both audibly presented via audio transducer 116 and can be conveyed to a designated file containing the digitally encoded TTS generated speech. Output preferences can be user configurable preferences that user 118 established for TTS output device 114.
It should be appreciated that not all of the content received by the TTS output device 124 is necessarily converted into speech. For example, in one embodiment, only textually formatted content can be TTS converted, while other content can be ignored by the TTS output device 124. In another embodiment, graphically formatted content can be searched for textual sections, located textual section can be converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR) technologies, and then OCR recognized text can be converted to speech by the TTS output device 124. In still another embodiment, a series of user 118 configurable settings associated with the TTS output device 124 can determine the type of content that is to be TTS converted.
The application interface 210 can be an interface for an application that presents content 118 which can be printed. The application interface 210 can include, but is not limited to, a word processor application, a PDF reader, an html browser, a graphics application, and the like. The application interface 210 need not have application specific TTS capabilities included.
The application interface 210 can include a file menu 212 with menu options to print 214 and print setup 216. Print 214 can cause the content 218 to be conveyed to a selected output device or printer. Print setup 216 can allow for the selection of a desired printer from a list of available printers and can permit a user to adjust user configurable print settings.
Selection of print setup 216 can cause print setup interface 220 to appear. Print setup interface 220 can include a printer selection 222 area. One selectable printer within the printer selection area 222 can include TTS output device 224. A series of control buttons 228 can cause a selected printer to be utilized (OK button), can establish the selected printer as a default printer (Default button), and can cause the changes made via the print setup interface 220 to be discarded (Cancel button). A properties 226 control can also be included to allow a user to configure the properties of a selected printer.
Selection of the properties 226 control can cause printer properties interface 230 to appear. The printer properties interface 230 for the TTS output device can permit TTS settings to be adjusted. For example, the printer properties interface 230 can allow the language 232, speed 234, and volume 236 of TTS output to be adjusted. Controls for selectively modifying gender 238, pitch 240, and head size 242 can also be included in printer properties interface 230. Further, the interface 230 can permit a user to select an output type, such as outputting generated speech to a speaker, to a file, or both, as shown by controls 244. When a file output option is included, a further option for specifying a file format 246 can be provided. The file format can be any audio format including, but not limited to, MP3, AVI, WAV, OGG, VOX, WMA, and other such formats. Interface 230 can also include control buttons 248, which can cause the setting appearing within interface 230 to be applied (OK button) or discarded (cancel button).
It should be appreciated that the details contained within GUI 200 are for illustrative purposes only and the invention is not to be limited to the graphical elements illustrated herein. One of ordinary skill in the art knows that any number of interfaces, graphical and otherwise, can be used to implement the functionally demonstrated herein, all of which are included within the scope of the present invention. That is, the illustrated buttons, list boxes, text boxes, menus, and the like can each be implemented in a variety of ways based upon design preferences, each of these varieties being included within the contemplated scope of the present invention.
For example, in one embodiment (not shown) application interface 210 can be an audible interface instead of a graphical one, where speech commands, such as "print", can be spoken to initiate content output. In another example, the printer properties 230 can be established within an editable configuration file (not shown) associated with the TTS output device instead of being implemented as selectable options of a GUI.
Method 300 can begin in step 305, wherein content to be printed can be identified. The content can be currently presented within an open application or selected in another fashion. For example, a file can be selected directly for printing from within a file management application. In step 310 a printer selection window can be opened. In step 315, a TTS output device can be selected as a printer for printing the identified content. Steps 310 and 315 are not necessary when a TTS output device has been previously selected as the default printer.
In step 320, a print command can be detected. In step 325, content identified for printing can be conveyed to the TTS output device. In step 330, a TTS engine associated with the TTS output device can be used to convert conveyed content to speech.
In step 335, speech converted content can be output in whatever manner is specified for the TTS output device. For example, in optional step 340, converted content can be audibly presented to a user via an audio transducer. In another example, in optional step 345, a new file having an audio format can be generated, where the new file contains a digitally encoded version of the speech converted content. After the speech converted output as been output, a user can continue to interact with a computer in a normal fashion, printing additional content to the TTS output device at will.
The machine readable instructions 420 can include one or more organized groupings of programmatic code. The programmatic code can be written in any of a variety of computer languages, such as JAVA, C, C++, FORTRAN, VISUAL BASIC, and the like. In one embodiment, the machine readable instructions 420 can be written in a single computing language. In another embodiment, the machine readable instructions 420 can be written in several different computing languages. Additionally, the programmatic code can be included within one or more software libraries, modules, routines, or sections.
The machine 430 that interprets the machine readable instructions 420 can be any of a variety of computing devices, such as a desktop computer, a server, a mobile electronic device, an electronic appliance, and embedded computing device, and the like. The machine 430 is not limited to a single computing device, but can also represent a two or more cooperating computing devices that are communicatively linked, each cooperating computing device executing a portion of the machine readable instructions 420.
The machine 430 can also include at least one data store 432 in which the machine readable instructions 420 can be stored. The data store 432 can include a persistent storage area, such as hard drive storage space, and/or a volatile storage area, such as RAM. The data storage 432 can be provided through any of a variety of storage mediums. For example, the data storage 432 can be provided via a magnetic medium, an optical medium, an electronic memory medium (such as FLASH memory or RAM), and combinations thereof. Additionally, the data storage 432 can utilize any data management technology including, but not limited to a file storage technology, an indexed sequential data storage technology, and relational database storage technologies.
In one embodiment, the machine readable instructions 420 need not be fixed within the data store 432, but can instead be provided in a piecemeal fashion to the machine 430 as required. That is, the complete set of machine readable instructions 420 need not reside within a computing space 412 in which the machine 430 operates in order for the machine 430 to perform the steps of method 300 in accordance with the machine readable instructions 420. Instead, the machine readable instructions can be located within a remotely located (meaning within a computing space not directly accessible by machine 430) computing space 410 and can be conveyed in a segmented fashion to computing space 412.
For example, a computing space 410 can provide different portions of the machine readable instructions 420 to computing space 412 via communication link 440 as needed. More specifically, the machine readable instructions 420 can be digitally encoded into a carrier wave 442. The carrier wave 442 can convey the digitally encoded information for performing the steps of method 300 between computing space 410 and computing space 412.
The communication link 410 over which the carrier wave 442 travels can represent any medium capable of conveying digitally encoded data. For example, the communication link 410 can include a data bus and/or a data cable that links various components of an integrated computing device to one another, such as the data bus that links a hard drive to a central processing unit. In another example, the communication link 410 can include a local area network, a wide area network, an intranet, or an internet.
The communication link can include line based communication pathways (such as a data cable or a network cable) as well as wireless communication pathways (such as a BLUETOOTH pathway, an 802.11 family based pathway, or a satellite based pathway).
In step 510, a human agent can be selected to respond to the service request. In step 515, the human agent can analyze the customer's computer. In step 520, the human agent can use one or more computing devices to perform or to cause the computer device to perform the steps of method 300. For example, the human agent can install the TTS output device as an optional printer, can select the TTS output device, can initiate a print command, and can receive audible output of TTS converted content that has been "printed" to the TTS output device. Appreciably, the one or more computing devices used by the human agent can include the customer's computer, a mobile computing device used by the human agent, a networked computing device, and combinations thereof.
In optional step 525, the human agent can configure the customer's computer in a manner that the customer can perform the steps of method 300 in the future. For example, the human agent can install the TTS output device as a print driver and can select the TTS output device as a default printer for the customer's computer. Once the customer's machine has been configured by the human agent, the newly configured machine to perform the steps of method 300 responsive to customer initiated actions. In step 530, the human agent can complete the service activities having resolved the problem for which the service request was submitted.
It should be noted that while the human agent may physically travel to a location local to the customer's computer when responding to the service request, physical travel may be unnecessary. For example, the human agent can use a remote agent to remotely manipulate the customer's computer system in the manner indicated in method 500.
The present invention may be realized in hardware, software, or a combination of hardware and software. The present invention may be realized in a centralized fashion in one computer system, or in a distributed fashion where different elements are spread across several interconnected computer systems. Any kind of computer system or other apparatus adapted for carrying out the methods described herein is suited. A typical combination of hardware and software may be a general purpose computer system with a computer program that, when being loaded and executed, controls the computer system such that it carries out the methods described herein.
The present invention also may be embedded in a computer program product, which comprises all the features enabling the implementation of the methods described herein, and which when loaded in a computer system is able to carry out these methods. Computer program in the present context means any expression, in any language, code or notation, of a set of instructions intended to cause a system having an information processing capability to perform a particular function either directly or after either or both of the following: a) conversion to another language, code or notation; b) reproduction in a different material form.
This invention may be embodied in other forms without departing from the spirit or essential attributes thereof. Accordingly, reference should be made to the following claims, rather than to the foregoing specification, as indicating the scope of the invention.
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By the end of The Breakfast Club, the kids have learned that each of them is not solely a Brain, a Princess, a Criminal, a Basket Case, or an Athlete, but individuals who defy categorization. If only the characters in My Generation--and its dwindling viewers--were afforded the same opportunity.
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