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The Financial Services Industry and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), 2008.
A thesis analyzing the impact of voice over Internet (VoIP) protocol in the financial services industry.
19,660 words (approx. 78.6 pages), 21 sources, APA, $ 249.95
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This paper examines the adoption of voice over Internet (VoIP) protocol in each segment of the financial services industry, specifically focusing on the adoption practices in small, mid-size and large financial services firms. The author points out how companies at each strata of the financial services market change their processes to take advantage of the customer-centric, financial operations and services aspects of having VoIP-based systems in their organizations. The paper researches questions about the adoption of VoIP and its relationship to customer loyalty, the modification of quoting, ordering and payment systems using VoIP, the return on investment (ROI) and how well the customers of financial services firms are adopting VoIP-based applications. Includes several color graphs, figures and illustrations.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Executive Summary
Context of the Problem
Problem Statement
Specific Research Questions
Study Significance and Contribution to This Field
Research Design and Methodology
Phase I: Exploratory Research with Industry Experts using Experience Interviews Phase II: Early Adopter Research
Primary and Secondary Sources of Information
Organization of the Study
Literature Review
Summary
Factors Driving Financial Services' Technology Adoption
Financial Services Technology Needs Assessment
Defining the Financial Value Chain (FVC) and the role of VoIP
VoIP Market Dynamics in Financial Services
Applications Are the Agents of Change in VoIP Financial Services
Introducing the VoIP-Enabled Enterprise
Consensus of Industry Analysts on VoIP in Financial Services
VoIP within Financial Services: A Study of Transitions
Grant Thornton Case Study
Selection Criteria and Evaluation for VoIP System
Deployment at Grant Thornton
Results of the VoIP Implementation
Defining Voice over Internet Protocol
How does VoIP Work?
Step 1: Voice to Digital Data Transformation
Setp 2: Digital Data to IP Transformation
Step 3: Transmission
Step 4: IP Packet to Digital Data Transformation
Step 4: IP packet to Digital Data Transformation
Step 5: Digital Voice to Analog Voice Transformation
The Critical Role of VoIP Standards
A Critical Success Factor in Financial Services in Security over VoIP
Threats to VoIP
Confidentiality
ARP floods
VoIP Influence on Customer Loyalty
Executive Summary
Touch-Tone Interactive Voice Recognition
Automated Speech Recognition
Web Self-Service Sites
Analysts'\ Recommendations for Creating Value-Added Services Based on VoIP
Analysts' Recommendations for Launching Self-Service Channels Based on VoIP
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"Applications are the integration point between technology and business processes, and the growth of VoIP-based applications specifically in the areas of financial services and the growth of online banking, online investing and the many services financial institutions are working to deliver over the Internet.
"In a world of circuit switched networks (the foundation of PSTN Service), telephony has always been about access and security. The role of security in circuit switched networks is one that is highly matured, trusted, and relied on by even the most resistant-to-change financial institutions."
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Voice over WiFi, 2004.
This paper discusses 'Voice over WiFi', which gives the Internet voice facilities.
795 words (approx. 3.2 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 28.95
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This paper explains that VoIP is being replaced by 'Voice over WiFi', a technology that allows users to log on to the Net wirelessly, which is extremely useful for laptop users. The author points out that companies, such as Motorola, Japanese giant NEC, and Nokia have already begun or are planning to commercialize models that use WiFi technology both for data access and cellular voice. The paper relates that VoWiFi services are expected to consume much larger amounts of energy than their cellular counterparts, a problem that needs to be solved because customers will not be willing to use this service only for a few hours.
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"Voice over IP has its origins in 1995, when Vocaltec, Inc. released its Internet Phone Software that operated on the normal home PC of those times, with a 486 processor. Even so, VoIP had been discussed as a project for several years before that. The initial software designed encompassed the general idea used in the VoIP technology: the voice analogue signal were transformed into digital signals and where split in packages and sent as such over the Internet. The problem was that, for the technology to work, both the caller and the receiver needed the same type of equipment and the same software."
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Voice Recognition Technology, 2006.
An examination of voice recognition technology and its uses.
3,000 words (approx. 12.0 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 88.95
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This paper attempts to explain voice recognition technology by describing the components of a voice recognition system and by explaining what the functions of a computer with speech capabilities are supposed to be. The paper explains that the goal of voice recognition technology is to have effective speech communication that is hands free, allowing the user to use a computer without a keyboard. Furthermore, the paper also looks at the disadvantages of voice recognition technology, the future of the technology in business and voice recognition technology developments in the future.
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"Computer science is continually changing and growing, with new technologies being added to it on a regular basis. There are also some technologies that have been on board for many years, but have not been a high priority on the development front. Voice recognition is one technology that has been in use for many years, but on a limited basis. As the end of the 20th century approaches, voice recognition is now a technology that is seen as a promising and exciting useful tool for computer science. Voice technology is a valuable tool for individuals as a time saver, a necessary tool for the disabled, and has several practical uses in business."
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The Silencing of the Female Voice in Adolescence, 2002.
Using Pipher's "Reviving Ophelia" as a reference, this paper examines the role that the mass media plays in silencing the voice of the female teenager in American culture.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 5 sources, $ 53.95
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Carol Gilligan declares that "The silencing of the female voice in adolescence is enforced by the wish not to hurt others but also by the fear that in speaking her voice will not be heard." There are certain stereotypical portrayals of women in mass media that make the sexism of our society transparently clear. It also disallows women to have their own sense of self. This process inflicts extreme damage to the female voice in adolescence. In "Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girl"s, Pipher sees America's culture as "girl-poisoning". She shows how a certain brand of femininity is imposed on adolescent girls. This process, in her perspective, obliterates the confidence and self-knowledge that these young girls have amassed since their own childhood. In a tragic sense, their own peers act as enforcers.
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Finding the Personal Voice in Literature, 2003.
A review of five pieces of literature where the main character has to overcome being denied his own personal voice and then gaining it again.
3,884 words (approx. 15.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 106.95
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This paper discusses how people for all time have struggled to find their voice and their own individuality and how this is a theme prevalent in antebellum American literature. Through a review of different works, it shows how many times people cannot speak out because they are being denied the opportunity by superior powers, which is the case in "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass" by Frederick Douglass and "Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl" by Harriet Jacobs and ?Rip van Winkle? by Washington Irving. Other times it is the person?s own views of the world that prevent them from finding their own individual voice, as is the case in ?My Kinsman, Major Molineux? by Nathaniel Hawthorne and ?Bartleby, the Scrivener? by Herman Melville. It analyzes how these works prove to show that once boundaries have been overcome and the struggle of perfecting the use of one?s voice is complete, a person is much better off and a more whole human, if they speak out with their own opinions and accept the consequences, be they good or bad.
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"Much like Douglass, Harriet Jacobs wrote as the voice of the slaves in her work, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, but she speaks mainly for the female slave?s plight by directing her work at a Northern female reader, who is most likely to sympathize. She uses another female in her story, Linda Brent, as herself which says something even more about how her voice had been denied to her for very long. Men had traditionally been in power over women and as a result when speaking were more free to express themselves fully, but women were more protective of their own experiences after having long been denied the ability to speak their mind."
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VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol), 2005.
This paper discusses the principles behind VoIP (Voice-over-Internet-Protocol), its applications and the potential of this emerging technology.
7,235 words (approx. 28.9 pages), 24 sources, MLA, $ 161.95
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This paper explains that VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol), also referred to as internet telephony, IP telephony or Voice over the Internet (VOI), is a category of hardware and software that enables people to use the internet as the transmission medium for telephone calls by sending voice data in packets using IP rather than by traditional circuit transmissions of the PSTN. This paper points out that the number of VoIP providers, such as Vonage, is growing steadily; major carriers like AT&T are already setting up VoIP calling plans in several markets in the United States and the FCC is looking seriously at the potential ramifications of VoIP service. The paper relates that there are three different types of VoIP service in common use today: (1) ATA , the simplest and most common way, which is to connect a standard phone to a computer or internet connection for use with VoIP; (2) IP phones, specialized phones, which look like normal phones with a handset, cradle and buttons but, instead of having the standard RJ-11 phone connectors, have an RJ-45 Ethernet connector and (3) computer-to-computer, which is the easiest way to use VoIP and does not even require paying for long-distance calls. Illustrations.
Table of Contents
VOIP- An Overview
History of VOIP
Making calls through VOIP
Main Features of VOIP
VOIP: Difference from Standard Phone System: (Circuit Switching)
The VOIP Phone System: Packet Switching
The Advantage of VOIP
VOIP Hurdles
Overcoming the hurdles - CODECS
VOIP - For the business world
VOIP -In the United States
Future of VOIP
Conclusion
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"In a conventional phone conversation, while one are talking; the other party is listening, which means that only half of the connection is in use at any given time. Based on that, we can surmise that we could cut the file in half, down to about 4.7 MB, for efficiency. Plus, a significant amount of the time in most conversations is dead air -- for seconds at a time, neither party is talking. If we could remove these silent intervals, the file would be even smaller. Then, instead of sending a continuous stream of bytes (both silent and noisy), an option was devised of sending just the packets of noisy bytes when one created them, that is formed the basis of a packet-switched phone network, the alternative to circuit switching."
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?The Voice?, 2002.
A review of Thomas Harding's poem ?The Voice? .
1,510 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 49.95
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This paper looks at how title of Thomas Hardy?s poem ?The Voice? reveals a lot about its mode of delivery. It examines how the audible whispers of the woman calling are conveyed to the reader through literary devices such as rhyme and rhythm. It evaluates how ?The Voice? of the woman becomes a symbol of the narrator?s memory, which is tainted by illusion and attachment to the past. It analyzes how although the poem might be about a long-lost love, a past or failed romance, a memory he struggles to retain, Hardy progresses from an initial feeling of hope in the first two stanzas to an acceptance of reality in the last two. "The Voice" is a whisper of the past and a memory of his lover?s language.
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"In his natural surroundings, the narrator envisions and hears his lost lover. She is ?much missed.? This fundamental fact is made clear in the first stanza of ?The Voice,? underlining the importance of the relationship. The narrator is estranged from the woman whose voice he hears. She was ?the one who was all to me,? the narrator?s soul mate. However, there is no indication of the nature of the breakup. She could be dead or with another man; she could simply be away traveling. Regardless of the actual situation, the narrator longs for times past, ?when our day was fair.? The present moment is not bleak, but the past offers rich memories. Before the remainder of the poem is read, it would seem as if the narrator is simply hanging on to a hopeless romance. Clearly, this is not the case. Although he becomes aware that he is ?faltering forward? by the end of the poem, the narrator does not seem lost or emotionally distraught."
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Voice and Data Technology, 2004.
This paper discusses the effect of the use and application of voice and data technology on the business sector.
1,455 words (approx. 5.8 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 48.95
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This paper discusses that businesses today rely on voice and data technology to aid them in their day-to-day operations, which makes businesses run more efficiently than they did in the past. The author points out that switched voice services have made the most dramatic impact on how businesses operate today. The paper stresses that these technologies allow businesses to communicate quickly and easily with anyone anywhere in the world without ever meeting their customers or associates face to face.
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"In addition to the variety of telecommunications options that are available to businesses nowadays, there are also wide varieties of data transmission services that are available. All of the switched voice and dedicated voice technologies that businesses use today have switched and dedicated data counterparts. In today's business world, it is just as important to be able to connect to the internet and use it to gather and transmit data as it is to be able to communicate with people in a variety of ways. In order to be competitive, businesses today need to be able to have a presence on the internet. They also need to be able to conduct business over the internet, as well as search for and gather information from the internet."
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Quality of Service of Voice over Internet Protocol, 2008.
An in-depth essay on the service and quality provided by Internet voice over programs.
3,748 words (approx. 15.0 pages), 24 sources, APA, $ 103.95
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The paper precludes that Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is considered to be one of the most important elements in modern telecommunications today. It continues to state that before VoIP is able to attain the degree of acceptance that traditional telephony has, it has to be able to raise its quality of services (QoS) particularly in voice quality, security, interface and its compliance to various standards. The application of the services in information sensitive industries like trade, customer service and education indicates that VoIP has achieved a degree of success in terms of its major issues. The paper concludes that the establishment of minimum standards of performance to ensure the productivity of VoIP services in the industry is essential to advance the VoIP position. Unless the quality of VoIP reaches a quality level suitable as an enterprise product, the demand for VOIP will not be fully realized.
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"In 2004, the telecommunications industry saw the launch of mass-market VoIP services that followed the traditional interface models of Plain Old Telephone System (POTS) and by 2005, free services began their entry to the market (Dean, 2003). Among the first one to offer services for free ware Skype which remains to be a significant market leader today. Following the success of Skype other online services began to include VoIP as part of their interface and retooled products as seen in the launch of Microsoft's Window Messenger Live, Yahoo's Yahoo Messenger with Voice and Google's Google Talk among others."
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Voice in "Futility", 2005.
This paper examines the concept of voice in the war poem "Futility" by Wilfred Owen.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, $ 26.95
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In this essay, the voice of the narrator in Wilfred Owen's World War I poem "Futility" is explicated. Three of the aspects of the poet/narrator's voice that are examined are his gentleness, his tiredness, and his anger. Each of these qualities is used to show the fuller picture of the poem and of what Owen is trying to say and describe about death, war, and the world in which he lived.
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"In the chapter of 'Introduction to Literature, Criticism, and Theory' on the topic of voice, Andrew Bennett and Nicholas Royle make the claim that literature is "the space in which, more than anywhere else, the power, beauty and strangeness of the voice is both evoked and bodied forth". The point that is being made is that in literature, the voice being used to give the information, to tell the tale, to speak to the reader is much more important than the voice used on a cereal box or in a car owner's manual. The person or persons who are the voice are just as much a part of the reading experience as the letters on the page are. As Bennett and Royle add, "reading literary texts involves hearing extraordinary voices"."
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The Changing Voice of William Wordsworth, 2002.
Examines the changing poetic voice of William Wordsworth by discussing two of his poems.
1,356 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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We are so accustomed to thinking of William Wordsworth as the quintessential Romantic poet -- a man in love with the idea of a simple life lived close to nature -- that we are apt to overlook the fact that he is in fact sometimes somewhat ambivalent about his relationship to nature. The paper shows that Wordsworth's vision of his relationship to the world beyond his own experiences is throughout his life a shaping element of his poetic voice and, as this vision changes so does his style. This paper focuses on ?Excursion?, a relatively early poem, and ?The Prelude?, which is a twice-expanded version of a poem of the same name that he wrote in 1799. In 1805 he would expand ?Prelude? to an epic-length 13 books and in 1850 he would expand it again to 14 books. The paper shows that in both these poems, we see a different stage of Wordsworth?s relationship to both self and nature.
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""The Prelude? is, of course, in some measure autobiographical, but it is intended to be read more as a confessional than a restatement of the facts of his life in any simple way. Indeed, although the facts described in the poem did occur in his life, in the poem he has reordered them, recast them -- offered them to us in an interpretive framework that he has created for himself to understand the arc of his life. He is providing an instruction through example of the ways in which a person can rewrite his own history without being false to it; his is not an act of deception but of synthesis, an alchemical process that burns away everything that is unnecessary and leaves only the gold from the different eras of his life.
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VXML: Voice Innovation for the Future, 2002.
A study of the new Internet techonogy, Voice eXensible Markup Language (VoiceXML).
1,690 words (approx. 6.8 pages), 13 sources, APA, $ 54.95
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This paper discusses the advantages and disadvantages of the new technology, VoiceXML. It describes that the technology allows users to interact with the Internet using a telephone or voice browser. It explains how the technology will affect organizations. The paper includes color charts and graphic illustrations.
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?The computer of the future understands what we say, will talk to us, show us images and movies, and fit in a palm. The keyboard is not a natural extension of the human body. After all, we do not communicate naturally with a keyboard, but with our voice.? (Martin, 2000, The Challenge,5) World Wide Web technologies have, ?shifted the landscape for providers of traditional phone services to new set of customers accessing information and services through the Web.? (VoiceXML Forum, 2002,1). The standard coding language, Voice eXensible Markup Language (VoiceXML) allows users to interact with the Internet or an intranet using a telephone or voice browser. By enabling speech interactivity, VoiceXML literally acts as ?a translator that sits between the content on the Internet and the caller (us)?? (Castelluccio, 2002,11). The IDC reported that in 2000 over 1.6 billion telephones (both landline and wireless) were installed throughout the United States. By 2005, that number is expected to nearly double. Although traditional automated telephone services have been used by organizations for decades now, companies are looking towards new, improved, and less costly technology (Penumaka,6-7). With VMXL users are able to call into a ?voice browser? by dialing a regular phone number from any wire line or wireless phone. This voice browser allows the caller to surf the Web and interact with Internet and intranet applications hosted on any Web server. An example of a typical application would be a user who requests the flight status for a specific flight by calling into the browser. The voice browser, using speech recognition, recognizes the request and translates it into a travel service provider?s URL. The Web server processes the request and responds with a VoiceXML page. The browser interprets this page, and relays the flight information to the ?phone surfer? using a prerecorded or synthesized voice.
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Voice of the Southern Slave, 2002.
Houston A. Baker Jr.'s essay "Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave"
1,122 words (approx. 4.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, $ 38.95
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This paper shows how Houston A. Baker Jr. in his essay
"Autobiographical Acts and the Voice of the Southern Slave" addresses issues of the veracity and reliability of autobiographical narratives in the specific context of the slave era of the South. It explains how Baker writes about the southern slave narratives which emerged from that time in history. He asks how reliable are the autobiographical acts of southern slaves and examines the structure and origin of such narratives to find an answer.
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"Baker finds that the autobiographical impulse is part of the American tradition and began with the Puritans, and because of this connection, the impulse has about it some of the same sense of righteous purpose. Baker says that the white writer had a sense of being part of a new cultural experience. The white writer always thought of himself as capable of heading a new and great tradition, and they saw their works as having an importance and a permanence that added both credibility and weight to them. Baker finds, though, that there was a distinction between black and white culture that was seen in the narrative produced as well: Moved to introspection by the apparent "blankness" that surrounded him, the black, southern field slave had scarcely any a priori assumptions to act as stays in his quest for self-definition. He was a man of the diaspora, a displaced person imprisoned by an inhumane system (96)."
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Voice Output Communications, 2008.
An examination of four articles on the subject of voice output communications assisting severely disabled children.
905 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 4 sources, MLA, $ 32.95
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The paper looks at four articles that address the strategies presently employed in the ongoing effort to help voice output communications assist those who are severely disabled or handicapped in some way. The paper briefly discusses the pertinent aspects and findings of each study. The author writes how he would apply these technologies to the educational environment within which he operates.
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Introduction
Article Summary
Adaptation to the Educational Environment of Which This Writer is a Part
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"While the study is elegant in its simplicity, there are certain problems that should be pointed out. For one thing, the authors (Dyches et al, 2002) trained those individuals who would be working with Natasha on how to communicate with her; thus, it is fair to ask whether or not the devices actually work in a communicative sense or simply "look good" because the other participants in the study have received prior training. Additionally, the methodology is compromised because there are only six community members involved in the study and only one disabled person; hence, any findings cannot be generalized to all disabled people in all community environments."
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"From Silence to Voice", 2002.
A review of the book "From Silence to Voice".
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This is a critique of the book "From Silence to Voice."
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