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Movie Theaters in the US Use Keypad Browser service to announce show times and other information to callers over the telephone. It is quick and easy to use. Callers navigate a list of messages by using their telephone keypad to go forward or back through the list of messages at their own pace. Keypad Browser technology makes it possible to add advertising without annoying callers. Advertise popcorn, upcoming shows, and holiday hours. To begin service, contact us today! What is Keypad Browser™ technology? Keypad Browser technology is an audio user interface to information systems. Why audio? An audio user interface is important because it does not require eyesight. Activities which require eyesight compete with each other for our time. Hearing provides an alternate path for information to flow to the brain. This alternate path provides opportunity for people to put limited time to greater use. How does it work? It works by imitating the process of reading. The process of reading is different than the process of converting text to speech. The process of reading has to do with the way people use their eyes to scan a page of text. We read by moving our eyes to the next word, sentence, or paragraph on the page. Text is graphically divided into ideas using capitalization, punctuation, spacing, and other formatting. Keypad Browser technology imitates the process of reading by dividing continuous speech into blocks of speech. Each block represents an idea, similar to a sentence or paragraph. The user decides when to listen to the next block. When we read, we have control over the process by virtue of the fact that we have control over the movement of our eyes. Keypad Browser technology gives users control of the system by waiting for user input before playing the next block of speech. It is also possible to imitate the process of writing. Users can record their own speech into blocks of ideas. Blocks can be inserted, modified, and deleted. From a computer science point of view, each block of speech represents a state of the system. Users control the system by selecting the state. What can you do with it? The technology is a general purpose interface. There are many different markets and applications which could benefit from it. For example, the system could be used to search for desired information. A caller could say "Pizza, Pleasant Grove, Utah". The system could take this spoken input and generate a list of pizza places in that city, along with some advertising. Another example is to implement an audio version of email. The system would use its ability to imitate the processes of reading and writing to make the application more user friendly. Is the technology patented? Keypad Browser technology is patented, see U.S. patent number 6,862,344. Breathe new life into your old audio interface by taking advantage of available licensing opportunities. Contact: Kevin Cook - personal info  Revised: 8/18/2007
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