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Wizzard Software Helps Jane Phillips Medical Center Increase Safety Measures with New Voice Alert System
Business Wire, June 29, 2005
PITTSBURGH -- Wizzard Software (OTCBB:WIZD) announced that Jane Phillips Medical Center (JPMC) has licensed AT&T Natural Voices from Wizzard for an internal alert system. JPMC is a not-for-profit, acute care hospital, with the main campus located in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Established in 1952, Jane Phillips Medical Center offers a wide range of services, including general medicine, surgery, cardiopulmonary care, maternal and infant care, cancer treatment, geriatric care, orthopedics and physical medicine.
"We did not want an unintelligible, synthesized voice giving critical information. Every second counts and we wanted the message to be clear," said JPMC Programmer Analyst Trenton South. "Without AT&T Natural Voices, we would not have been able to release our solution."
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JPMC faced several problems when attempting to disseminate information throughout the hospital. The first problem was that all areas of the hospital were not able to hear the overhead announcements clearly, even though the codes were announced over a PA system. The second problem was that the PA system once quit working when a code needed to be called.
To solve these problems, South created Code Alert using AT&T Natural Voices to enable it with a highly intelligible, natural-sounding voice. To send a message throughout the hospital, an operator chooses the appropriate code color from a visual selection and types the location of the alert. The message can be as simple as "Code Blue Room 671", or more complex like "First Responders - Front entrance of the medical ark center." The message is broadcast across the network and a listening module in each client computer grabs the information, brings up a color-coded window on the screen, and speaks the message in a clear, natural-sounding voice. All hospital employees within earshot of a computer will hear the message.
"We are consistently impressed with the creative ways that customers are using speech in their applications", said Danielle Lewis, Marketing Director for Wizzard Software. "JPMC's innovative alert system is a great example of how synthesized speech can add tremendous value to alert systems and will one day become a standard for many similar applications."
About Jane Phillips Medical Center:
In its 50 years, Jane Phillips Medical Center has grown from a 94-bed hospital into a thriving healthcare delivery system dedicated to delivering quality, cost-effective compassionate care to the communities of northeast Oklahoma and southeast Kansas. For more information, please visit www.jpmc.org.
About Wizzard Software:
Founded in 1996, Wizzard Software has become a leader in the speech technology application development market. Wizzard architects solutions to business problems using its expertise in consulting, speech development tools and building speech based applications for the Desktop and Internet. Wizzard has achieved global recognition because of its expertise with speech communication whether it is via PC or telephone. Wizzard's successes have lead to expanding opportunities in both the government and commercial sectors. In April of 2004, Wizzard acquired MedivoxRx Technologies. Established in 2000, MedivoxRx is the originator of "Rex", the talking prescription pill bottle, which "talks" to the patient allowing them to distinguish what type of medication is in the bottle and hear critical information on dosage amounts and refill parameters. Additional information on MedivoxRx can be found at www.rxtalks.com. More information on Wizzard Software can be found on the Investor's Page at www.wizzardsoftware.com.
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