The Pursuit of Economic Freedom There's a major goal today in our society: economic freedom. That is the right to do what you want, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, and for as long as you want to do it. Right now, most of us do not make those decisions. Someone other...

Hardware Solution: ABC Construction Company is a construction firm specializing in custom homes and office plazas. It has a corporate office in Atlanta with field offices in Mobile and Jacksonville. To date, interaction between the offices has been minimal. Each office obtained their own supplie...

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Text to speech devices is "a talking device (...) that inputs text andconverts it automatically to synthetic speech"[1]. These type oftechnologies have suffered constant and continuous improvements in the lastcouple of years and there are several companies specialized in this area. The...

Whether looking up a customer's account, checking to see what's in stock or verifying a price, virtually all enterprise applications need to extract data from more than one source. And to meet the demands of their users, applications must retrieve the data quickly, deliver it in a form tha...

The technology of Text-to-Speech is among the state-of-the-art advancementsbrought about by computer research and studies. Aside from the visualproperties that people used to enjoy while Internet surfing, such asgraphics and animations, text-to-speech is an added functionality to acomputer's usabil...