Apparently, computers understand women better than men. Although that’s not too difficult, given man’s track record of completely failing to understand the gender from Venus throughout the centuries.

Okay, so we’re not talking about understanding in an empathic sense, of course, but in pure terms of voice recognition, where computers can decipher a woman’s speech better than a man’s.

And not just because men are prone to talking more rubbish. It’s because men “um” and “er” more often when speaking than women, so says research from the University of Edinburgh.

These, um, noises of hesitant punctuation tend to, er, confuse voice recognition software, which often relies on the context of words together. Splitting them apart with “erms” doesn’t help.

The first word in a sentence is often the most difficult to understand, as obviously there’s no preceding context for it.

Also, the speaker can often inhale, adding a breath sound to further confuse the computer’s recognition routines (asthmatics and obscene phone callers are in particular trouble here).

It must be said that speaking to a computer isn’t the male gender’s preferred method of communication, anyway. A mouse flung at the case, or a swift boot to the optical drive, is a message that any PC will receive loud and clear when it has crashed one too many times.

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Computers prefer the voice of a woman

The word TV could be misleading, since the IP and the traditional TV will substantially be different, because different IS the transport of content and different IS the substance of content.
IPTV will be similar to the traditional TV in the sense that will be a display of content prepared and sent from a central server to many “clients”.
The servers of course can be millions and the “clients” billions.
In this it will be different from any P2P or “search and download”.
There will be a schedule and the audience will choose the more suitable time to connect in order to have the wanted content.
Till now not so much different from traditional TV.
But what will IPTV mean as improvement compared to the traditional TV?

1) Footprint. Any Producer theorethically from any part of this world can reach any consumer on any country of this world.
Traditional TV and Satellite TV are restricted to a limited footprint coverage.
This will have a huge imoprtance, because very specialized programs and content will find the reason and meaning to exist.
And specialized content means specialized producers.
While in a restricted area is difficult to find the minimum number of listeners and viewer of certain programs, on a large scale like the one offered by the full world footprint, it will be easy to find the minimum number that allows enough revenue for the broadcasting of a transmission .

2) Low Cost. The Internet as a tranportation way can beat any other for cost and availability. Can beat also any other as possible customers’ number.
Internet capacity and traffic are growing rapidly.

3) High quality pictures and music. Also magnetic storage capacity is growing rapidly and that is the right direction of IPTV.
More than a low bandwidth streaming it will be a high quality downloading.
Download when it is broadcasted and store it to see later. Just any TV transmission.
Displays are improving slowly, but improving.
And with them the need of high quality videos and audios.
You cannot display a low quality movie on a high quality display.
And if you are used to enjoy good quality music and videos, you simply cannot enjoy a tiny screen and bad resolution…

4) Interactivity. Internet delivery is likely to facilitate evolution of TV (HDTV).
And the most important feature will be the interactivity. (The real interactive TV, …)
Also commercials will be different.
More as “movies as commercials” than “commercials in the movies”.
The customer wants to be entertained and be an active part of the enertainment.
This is quite clear if we look at the type of entertainment most popular among Internet users: video games, emailing, forums, chat lines.
In a society which kills individualism, where individuals are seen as consumers, where socializing gets everyday more difficult, the Internet is the new mean to regain one own’s identity, one own’s share in the game, in the communication.

On one side what is called “long tail” and on the other side the possibility to interact give the consumer the voice he has lost with the other entertainments, one way means: traditional TV, Radio, Cinema.
IPTV will win in the short run, because it is the answer to the demand of the individual of today.
It will be many things, but the most valuable and important will be giving space to the single man on the road and in its own way the real democratic dlivery of human production…

Since the rates of change are:

Will it beat Internet Time?

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What IPTV will be.

If you only wanted carrier IPTV service, your set-top box would get IP access to the carrier’s local video servers, not the Internet.
If you only wanted carrier voice access, your ATA would get IP access to the carrier’s local voice servers, not the Internet.
Its no different than today if you ordered cable TV service, but not cable modem service. Or order telephone service, but not DSL Internet service.
People would be buying access to different “virtual” networks. You could buy access to the video network, the voice network or the Internet network. Just because you buy access to one of the networks, doesn’t mean you get access to all of the bandwidth on the physical circuit.
If you don’t buy/use the carrier’s voice or video service, the Internet service is effectively the only service on the DSL access link, so QOS just acts as a bandwidth limiter based on the access rate you bought. In that case, there is nothing to “prioritize” beyond a few link management messages.
The carrier could offer “burstable” Internet access up to the link rate, but would people understand what happens when they use more bandwidth than exists on their access line when they are sharing bandwidth among all the services instead of reserving fixed amounts of each service?
Tech savvy people may understand they have a total of X-Mbps of bandwidth. When they turn on 10 HD video streams, will they be surprised if they see macroblocking. Other people probably will call their service provider to complain their TV doesn’t work or they aren’t getting the full X-Mbps downloads at the same time as watching HD Sports on their TV.
In the near term, under-promising so you can over-deliver seems a safer path.

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IPTV and Bandwidth

Centile Enters Eastern Europe with a new customer win in Poland – November 29, 2006

Centile today announced that Intelligent Technologies SA, a leading Polish Service Provider, has selected Centile’s IntraSwitch to support the delivery of extensive IP Centrex services for a pan country roll out of VoIP services.

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SIP Based Multimedia Applications

VCom, CableMatrix, AudioCodes and Emergent Network Solutions Unveil High Quality VoIP Over WiMAX Offering – June 1, 2006

VCom Inc., CableMatrix Technologies, AudioCodes, and Emergent Networks, today announce a live demonstration will be held on June 5 of an IP voice over WiMAX call. The calls will be made from the VCom booth (#66080) to the AudioCodes booth (#53080) during GLOBALCOMM 2006.

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VoIP over WiMAX