AboutVoice Offers Multilingual Web Addresses.AboutVoice has announced a Chinese multilingual Web solution, the first in a string of 36 multilingual Web addresses to be launched in 2001 and 2002. Until now, much of the world, including Chinese Internet users, has been forced to type English URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. addresses, which has presented language problems for 95 percent of non-English-speaking Internet users. AboutVoice, a voice recognition technology provider, offers a way for Chinese speakers to find Web sites, products and services by talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to their computer or PDA (Personal Digital Assistant) A handheld computer for managing contacts, appointments and tasks. It typically includes a name and address database, calendar, to-do list and note taker, which are the functions in a personal information manager (see PIM). . Using patent-pending voice recognition technologies, AboutVoice listens to the user's voice, quickly searches the Web and brings the user to the content requested. For example, people in Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. know banking giant Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank as "Wui Feng" in Cantonese. With AboutVoice, the user can say "Wui Feng" into the computer and it will take the user to www.hsbc.com.hk. The company notes that this service can help companies unify their online and offline brands, as many companies are known b y an abbreviated form of their company name, but their Web site name is substantially different. The service allows users to say the company names that everybody knows without extensions such as ".com." Customers can purchase spoken names on a first-come, first-serve basis at AboutVoice's Web site. The compact 500 kb AboutVoice software takes less than one minute to download and imbeds itself into the Internet Explorer toolbar A row or column of on-screen buttons used to activate functions in the application. Many toolbars are customizable, letting you add and delete buttons as required. Toolbars may be fixed in position or may float, which means they can be dragged to a more convenient location in the . |
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