Recently Unveiled High Tech Court In England Uses VoiceIQ Systems.Business Editors MARKHAM, Ontario--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 12, 2001 VoiceIQ Inc. (CDNX CDNX See Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX). :VIQ VIQ Verbal IQ VIQ Volunteer and Information Quinte (Ontario, Canada) VIQ Very Important Question VIQ Vessel Inspection Questionnaire VIQ Variation in Quantity VIQ Virtualized Input Queue VIQ Values Identification Questionnaire .) today announced that it is participating in a court pilot project in London, England that is the first in that country to launch "virtual reality" hearings. The high technology court, where defendants can e-mail judges with their "not guilty" pleas, was recently unveiled to the media and public in England. The Kingston-upon-Thames Crown Court, in west London West London is the area of Greater London to the west of Central London. Although it is only ambiguously defined, it is one of the most economically active areas of London outside of the centre, containing significant amounts of office space along with Heathrow Airport and many of , is the first of 20 pilot centers that will be involved in testing new courtroom technology. The cyberspace pleas are designed to save time and money as defendants will not always need to attend a preliminary hearing. Within four years, the Years, The the seven decades of Eleanor Pargiter’s life. [Br. Lit.: Benét, 1109] See : Time aim is to extend the system to 78 crown courts across England and Wales England and Wales are both constituent countries of the United Kingdom, that together share a single legal system: English law. Legislatively, England and Wales are treated as a single unit (see State (law)) for the conflict of laws. . Plans include computer screens in court for everybody involved in a case, from judges to jurors, to view the evidence. The courtroom in Kingston-upon-Thames includes VoiceIQ's digital recording and voice file management systems in addition to computers for storing evidence. "We are pleased to be working with England's crown courts in developing effective and cost efficient solutions," said Terry Graham, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and President of VoiceIQ. "When you consider the many other court projects we are involved with across various jurisdictions in South Africa, Australia, the U.S. and at home in Canada, it clearly shows that there is global demand for our court solutions." VoiceIQ Inc. currently provides commercially accepted voice capture, management and processing applications as well as an enterprise-wide framework architecture that enables dynamic distributed multimedia data retrieval and transmission. Developed on an Internet/Intranet foundation that is XML XML in full Extensible Markup Language. Markup language developed to be a simplified and more structural version of SGML. It incorporates features of HTML (e.g., hypertext linking), but is designed to overcome some of HTML's limitations. and IP based, this unique e-business platform is designed to provide application tools that are not hardware dependent or invasive. Focusing primarily on Legislative, Court and Healthcare markets, VoiceIQ has thousands of installations spread across Canada, the U.S., Europe, Australia and South Africa. The company's technology is scaleable and designed to accommodate new features and functions that include voice authentication, keyword spotting and voice recognition. As a result, VoiceIQ's e-business platform, which uses advanced artificial intelligence to foster intelligent interaction with information, is currently being tested in a number of new markets including financial services, telecommunications and government. The Canadian Venture Exchange The Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) is now a defunct stock exchange having been acquired by the TSX Group in 2001 and renamed the TSX Venture Exchange. History of the Canadian Venture Exchange (CDNX) has neither approved nor disapproved the information herein. |
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