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»Biggest Hole In Space, Ever!

Scientists found a huge 1 billion light year hole in space. <a href="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12546">The actual finding is based on the cosmic microwave background</a>. Interesting stuff.

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The cold spot in question is an unexplained anomaly in the map of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) created by NASA’s WMAP satellite. The photons of the CMB coming from a region of the sky in the direction of the constellation Eridanus are colder than expected. Rudnick’s team started looking for radio sources such as radio galaxies and quasars in the direction of the cold spot. "Radio sources track the distribution of mass in the universe," says Rudnick. "They are the signposts for galaxies, clusters of galaxies and dark matter."

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Nice setup!

Bad table .

Washing my truck.. lol.

Figured.

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Actually, I'd say in this particular case (Madden) it doesn't really matter. People would buy new Maddens (and brag about how awesome they were) if EA slipped copies of Madden '97 in instead of Madden '08.

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»Russia Planning Moon Base

Add Russia to the list of countries planning to setup a base on the moon. <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/08/31/science-russia-moon.html">Looks like another space race will be occurring soon</a>.

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Russia had originally sought to join a U.S. plan to establish a moon base in 2024. But Perminov said earlier this year the U.S. rebuffed the offer to jointly explore the moon. On Friday, Perminov said Russia plans to complete its section of the International Space Station by 2015 and will begin working on a modernization of the Soyuz spacecraft used to transport cosmonauts and equipment to the station.

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Sure, it's a classic gothic romance. But does anyone else find it hard to follow Mr. Rochester's conversation? Also, I'd like to know what happened fiery begruding attitude Jane always nursed through her girlhood...

I was actually quite surprised sometimes at how resignedly she endured some of Mr. Rochester and his companions' humiliations. I would have at the LEAST expected to spend some time moping over the injustice of it all.

I didn't even notice that there was a books topic! *glee*

I highly recommend people read Wizard's First Rule in the Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind.

The series puts a lot of emphasis on the fact that most tryants and evil doers don't think of themselves as such...
It's fast-paced and very well thought out. One character actually goes from a being a nobody, to one of the most powerful wizards in the world, to the emperor of an entire country! I spent many a night in agonized anticipation because I just couldn't wait to find out what happened next.

Each book explores a 'rule' or truth... The first truth, for example, is:
"People will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true."

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Oh my gawd.

I can't believe they thought it was controversial that the heroine be named 'Maddy' and listed as a 'Chambermaid' and that Disney actually caved to change it.

Although... Tiana is a much prettier name.

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It looks cool. But if they want to compete, they should work on lowering that price tag.

I dunno about that. I would jump at that one just for the ability to expand the memory past the normal amount. SD cards are cheap as hell, so one could easily buy the 4 gig model, buy a 4 gig SD card for 30 bucks and double the amount of space.

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»Open Source Alternatives

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So you want to dabble in Open Source but you don't know where to start. You have programs that you use daily and don't know what the equivalent ones are in Open Source. This article is your guide.

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»Wed Reviews

<a href="http://forums.xsreviews.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2023">OCZ Flex 2gb PC2-6400 CL3 Competition - XSReviews</a>

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* "Another memory competition but this time it's a kit of OCZ PC2-6400 2gb Flex memory. This kit has inbuilt water cooling capabilities and huge air cooled heatsinks. Designed to be the overclocker's dream, these modules are not something to be scoffed at."

<a href="http://hardwarelogic.com/news/62/ARTICLE/1473/2007-08-29.html">ZeroTherm BFT90 CPU Cooler Review @ HardwareLogic</a>

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As one of the hottest products to hit the market today, the ZeroTherm BTF90 is classified as a high end CPU cooler solution geared for enthusiasts. Sporting a massive copper base, eight heat pipes, and copper fins, the BTF90 looks and feels to be the end-all CPU thermal cooling solution. Or is it? Let's take a closer look at this behemoth cooler and find out!

<a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/news/8067/wcg_australia_gigabyte_amd_rd790_demo/index.html">TweakTown's Intel X38 and AMD RD790 coverage</a>

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The MSI marketing people just sent through a shot of the almost final revision of their X38 Diamond with the new full cooper heat pipe cooling solution (the shipping version will be striped of DDR2 slots and will be DDR3 only). The X38 chipset does get quite hot and as a result, a rather exotic cooler is required to keep things in order but it is not quite as crazy as the previous types we have seen from MSI but almost. This heat pipe cools the PWM area, X38 Northbridge, ICH9R Southbridge and the final chip at the very bottom (which is used to control PCI Express lane sharing between the four PEG x16 slots). The top two slots will run at x16 electronically while the bottom two will operate at x4 each if the top two are used in dual graphics mode (note we didn't just say Crossfire as X38 like its older brother the 975X can do SLI just not officially).

<a href="http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1143">ICY DOCK MB663UR-1S @ Bjorn3D</a>

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Did you ever have a laptop go bad and you forgot to backup the precious data? Professional data retrieval could cost a significant amount of dollars. A simpler solution would be to purchase a 2.5'' external/internal storage enclosure which would allow you to connect the hard drive to a desktop for data retrieval. For a retail price of approximately $20, it would be an invaluable investment when it comes to data rescue. Here at Bjorn3D, we have previously looked at ICY Dock's 2.5 IDE internal/external enclosure and today, we are going to take a look at ICY Dock's 2.5'' SATA internal/external enclosure.

<a href="http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Zaward/TwinTowers">Zaward Twin Towers Chipset Cooler @ techPowerUp</a>

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In the quest for silent performance, users are looking toward heatpipes for most of their cooling needs. Today we are looking at the new fanless chipset cooler from Zaward, called the Twin Towers. This chipset cooler has two heatpipes, one of which can rotate around the other to reduce compatibility issues. We put the Twin Towers to the test to see what kind of performance comes with its silence.

<a href="http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=10935">X.Org 7.3 Preview</a>

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"Scheduled for release tomorrow is X.Org 7.3. Among the new features for X.Org 7.3 include the Xorg server 1.4, an application for adjusting a display's backlight, updated display drivers, and support for font catalog directories. Version 1.4 of the X.Org server contains such features as RandR 1.2 support, input hot-plugging, KDrive enhancements, Solaris DTrace support, and EXA improvements. In this article today, we will briefly go over some of the changes found in X.Org 7.3 and we will follow up with some benchmarks in early September."

<a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1167/gecube_s_dual_gpu_gemini_3_sneak_peek/index.html">GECUBE's Dual GPU Gemini 3 - Sneak Peek!</a>

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Remember the Gemini 3 from GECUBE? If not, let us refresh your memory. The Gemini 3 is the second dual GPU card from GECUBE, the previous one was the Gemini 2 and it was based on a pair of Radeon X1650 XTs. The Gemini 3 features a pair of Radeon HD 2600 XT GPUs and they're clocked at 800MHz. Each GPU is paired with 256MB of 500MHz DDR2 memory (1GHz effectively). This might not sound like anything all too remarkable so far, but it seems like GECUBE will beat all the other AMD partners that are working on dual GPU cards, this by simply being the first to market. GECUBE is expecting the Gemini 3 to be available in retail some time next month, but we weren't given an exact launch date or a price for that matter.

<a href="http://www.bcchardware.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4480&Itemid=40>">Ultra Grid ATX Case Review Action - BCCHardware</a>

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This case is like a lot of other Mid-Towers on the market today, and does not offer a lot of room for oversized cards such as the 8800GTX, and when using a card like the 8800GTX your going to end up blocking a couple slots for hard drives, which isn't a problem for most 1-2 hard drive configurations, but if you plan on putting more than 2 in the case, you might be out of luck. . .

<a href="http://www.modders-inc.com/reviews-story--157.html">Ultra 7 Port USB Buddy Hub at Modders-Inc</a>

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Ultra Products has came up with a little solution that will not only allow you to easily add USB devices to your computer easily, but it will also allow you to connect the Hub to a second computer so you can share the devices between the two computers.

<a href="http://legitreviews.com/article/554/1/">A Look Back At The AMD Athlon Processor Series @ Legit Reviews</a>

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Quote: "After going back five years and looking at the performance of the Athlon XP 1800+, it is amazing to see how far we have come in just five years. A good number of our readers still have Athlon XP systems in use and this article was a great opportunity to show them what they are missing out on as none of the major hardware review sites include these processor in updated performance charts any longer. The new Athlon 64 X2 6400+ processor is a welcomed addition to the Athlon series of processors, but it's sad knowing that this will likely be the last speed step for the Athlon series..."

<a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1166/palit_hd_2600_xt_speed_vs_memory/index.html">Palit HD 2600 XT - Speed vs Memory</a>

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line up with each new release from AMD. The latest participants to the epic battle is the HD 2600 XT, coming standard with 256MB of GDDR3 memory Palit have taken it upon themselves to offer three models. There's the standard model which we don't really care about, because everyone knows that standard is boring. We then have the Sonic which is an overclocked 256MB GDDR3 card, and in the other corner we have the Super which comes in at stock clocks but carries with it 512MB of GDDR3 memory.

<a href="http://www.thinkcomputers.org/index.php?x=reviews&id=640>">iOne Scorpius P20MT Wireless Keyboard Review @ ThinkComputers.org</a>

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"The iOne Scorpius P20MT 2.4GHz MCE Keyboard with Optical Trackball certainly lends a helping hand whenever it comes to using your HTPC. In today's world HTPCs are becoming more popular than ever. We are starting to see more companies emerge to help us enhance our home theatre environment. We have seen this from our previous review of the Scorpius N2T. The P20MT has some different features including the capability of easily recharging the device, a power button, and an even slimmer design. Let's take a further look to see what the Scorpius P20MT has to offer."

<a href="http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1165/sapphire_radeon_hd_2400_xt_hd_2600_xt/index.html">Sapphire Radeon HD 2400 XT + HD 2600 XT</a>

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"AMD have got their whole mid-range lineup well and truly going now and we had a look at Palit and their HD 2600 cards the other week; now it's time to have a look at the Sapphire HD 2600 XT and HD 2400 XT. The question is though, is it enough for us to recommend them over the 8600 series? Well at the time of writing about the Palit cards, almost! Since then a new driver set has come out in the form of the Catalyst 7.8 and some serious speed increases were seen for the mid-range cards. This could be enough for them to be the card of choice for users on a budget."

<a href="http://www.xyzcomputing.com/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=1139">Toshiba R500 Notebook Review at XYZ Computing</a>

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The R500 received a lot of hype right from the start because of a few important distinctions. First of all, the R500 was (and still is) the slimmest notebook currently available with an optical drive. Its 7mm thick drive allows a total closed system height of just 0.77". Not long after the initial announcement the R500 made more headlines when different SKUs were announced, one of which (the R500-S5003) was called the world's lightest 12" notebook. At 1.7lbs for model with a 12.1" LCD (though no optical drive) this version of the R500 is obviously an incredible system, though its 64GB solid-state disk also helps to set it apart from the crowd. The R500 also touts the longest battery life of any 12.1" widescreen notebook, though this is something that we will look into more closely.

<a href="http://www.bjorn3d.com/read.php?cID=1140">Swiftech MCW-60 @ Bjorn3D</a>

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Desperate times call for desperate measures. You may have heard this saying spoken throughout history and while those who have uttered these words may have been referring to periods of great struggle I am sure seeing the current state of video cards this quote applies here. As GPU's continue to hunger for more and more power they will continue to generate more and more heat. Gone are the days when a simple piece of metal would suffice. Even mid-range cards such as the 8800GTS require a dual-slot cooling solution to tame the beast within. What is an enthusiast to do? Sure you can get a nice large cooler if you can live with the noise it generates. What about water cooling? Ya know, that stuff you're NOT supposed to bring near expensive electronics. Before you decide me mad and click that little red 'X' what if I told you that you need not be so desperate to try water cooling. That a company with higher quality standards than most car manufacturers has a waterblock that destro! ys the competition and keeps your video card nice and chilly. With no more ado I give you the MCW-60 from Swiftech, a waterblock that delivers were it counts.

<a href="http://www.tweaknews.net/reviews/steel_series_sx_pro_mousepad/">Steel Series SX Pro Gaming Mousepad Review @ Tweaknews.net</a>

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"In the end it comes down to one question: Are you prepared to pay for the best. At a hefty 49.95 Euro (US$70) this is not a product a casual user will be interested in. I personally would never spend that much on a mouse pad but I don't claim to be an avid gamer either. If you are looking for the best gaming pad money can buy, you've found it. If you are looking for good performance at an affordable price, keep looking."

<a href="http://www.mvktech.net/content/view/3694/39/">Sapphire Radeon HD 2600 XT GDDR4 Edition Review @ MVKTech</a>

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Well we are glad to finally been able to partner with Sapphire, which = earned as a company already a great name within the ATI community. So we = will take you on a journey to show a bit more on what Sapphire is all = about and which products they are currently offering on the market. The = wait is finally over. Not so long ago AMD released the Radeon HD 2900 = series and along with that introduction came as well the low-end and = mid-range products to go up against NVIDIA. Now that we are a couple of = months further the Radeon HD 2600 series are available. Sapphire brings = is the GDDR4 edition of the Radeon HD 2600 XT graphics accelerator.

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»Patent Troll Sues Online Companies Over Automated Emails

I love how we grant patents to things that are obvious, even when they were filed. <a href="http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201802746">This patent company is suing many online companies over their use of automated response emails</a>. I believe that vacation responders and the like have been around for much longer.

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A more likely scenario appears to be a payday for the plaintiff. "It looks like Polaris IP is in the business of licensing patent rights and has no desire to enforce its requested injunction," said Dennis Crouch, associate professor of law at University of Missouri School of Law and the author of the law blog Patently-O, in an e-mail. "I expect that Polaris IP will be willing to settle these cases for what it believes is a reasonable six- or seven-digit figure." Crouch pointed out that the message routing patent at issue has been involved in litigation many times. "There are no published opinions associated with these cases and they have all been settled," he said. Polaris IP, Crouch observed, "appears to be part of a web of IP-related companies associated with attorney David Pridham." These companies include Orion IP, Constellation IP, IP Navigation Group, Cushion Technologies, CT IP Holdings, Triton, Circinus IP, and Firepond.

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Said By ExShinobi

not the Bermuda triangle its in the area of japan lol.

as for the uso's as i said before are unidentified SUBMERGED objects. like objects that glow under water. or like fly around ships uber fast and then dive under water

I picked this post to quote to answer everyone's question or rather clarify!

UFO - ANYTHING seen in the air above the surface of the earth that is unidentifiable. So yes UFO'S are real, just not necessarily aliens or extraterrestrials, many times pressure builds up in the Earth;s crust which can cause balls and flashes of light in the sky that dance and move with incredible speed and apparent maneuverability, but it is not alien. It is believed these account for most UFO sightings, along with weather balloons and new aircraft test flights!

USO - Same as UFO but under water, it is believed we have only categorized 1/10 th of the creatures in the sea and a new species is cataloged every week or more, and their are of course new dsv and usv crafts tested regularly.

Devils triangle - the area of ocean between Bermuda, Florida, and Puerto Rico, where many anomalies have been reported along with missing ships and aircraft Most of the ship and air craft disappearances have been attributed to subterranean undersea gas pockets being released due to the shifting of the ocean bottom from the many undersea volcanoes and earthquakes, the bubbles in the water beneath a water craft such as a boat or ship, causes the water lose most of it's density and therefore the craft lose most of their buoyancy, then the methane gas being lighter than air rises and aircraft flying through this cloud of gas which is also less dense than the air, lose altitude and lack of oxygen can cause the engines to stall or if there is enough oxygen for the engines to run they can ignite the cloud, either way you have an aircraft down.

Japan's Dragons Triangle - An area of ocean near Japan, with similar characteristics and anomalies ans the Bermuda triangle.

I hope this is found to be clear and understandable by all as well as informative!

TSG!

Said By technoflutemom

After 10 years, SG-1 is over (except for the straight to DVD movies). Did anyone else catch the finale? I have to admit that I loved that Daniel and Vala got together, even thought I hate Vala. I even loved his initial denial tirade and thought Michael Shanks captured it perfectly. It was very much in character. Could have done with less Cam and Landry, more T'ealc and any O'Neill, though!

To tell the truth I didn't like Vala or Mitchel (Claudia Black & Ben Browder) from when they were coupled in Farscape, but I must admit for the few seasons from when they were introduced, both characters have grown on me, but mostly Vala's! I like when characters GROW in their show and hers was a well written well thought out character as well as creative!

TSG!

I dropped it because I didn't realize it was the teacher that I hate.

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»Solar Powered WiFi

This is a good idea to use solar power for WiFi transmitters. <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-11392_3-6204446.html">Most public WiFi spots are out in the sun anyway</a>.

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Since solar energy can't be harvested all the time, the panel is actually far larger than would be necessary to simply power the router. In Florida, which gets about 4.5 hours of peak solar energy a day, Solis installs a 220-watt solar panel that measures about 4 feet by 5 feet. Ordinarily, a router only needs about 24 watts of power, he said. All that extra power goes to recharging the batteries, which run all night. The batteries in the system let the routers survive cloudy periods and can actually keep the router going for seven days without a recharge, Reynolds said.

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»Copyright Law: Enabling Freedoms!

Copyright law should be used to increase art and such, <a href="http://news.com.com/2010-1030_3-6204450.html">not stifle true innovation</a>.

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At the very least, we all know that when the warning signs appear, what follows are a few very-important-sounding sentences noting the dire consequences of unauthorized use of what we're about to see. We don't necessarily understand it, but we know it's bad. And if we were to believe what they tell us, discussing Barry Bonds' homeruns around the water cooler would put us all in jail. Did it ever occur to you that, in many cases, these serious, ubiquitous warnings may not actually be accurate?

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Sounds interesting.....

I hate when companies can't even get their binaries correct.

It seems that my new 8600GTS has some problems in Linux. The screen redraw is horrible. It seriously is worse than my old X800... I think it is even worse than the plain vesa driver!

I'm running a fresh install of Kubuntu and installed the latest drivers with Envy. You can really notice the problem in Firefox because the redraw is really, really bad.

Anyone have a solution? I may just call Nvidia and complain about this. I had a 6600GT that works perfectly with these drivers. I'm amazed that the new cards suck so bad in Linux.

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»Gutsy On The Way

Remember that the new Ubuntu release is almost a month away. <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-7344_3-6204359.html">Gutsy will bring loads of enhancements and such</a>. I'm preparing to redo my main computer and will likely install the Kubuntu version of Gutsy. That's how I roll!

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Printing also has had an overhaul, with a virtual "PDF printer" set up by default to allow any application to output into PDF format. The old printer management system has been replaced and a new configuration tool should mean that printers are set up just by plugging them in and turning them on, developers said. The Tribe 5 release also includes the latest version of the Gnome desktop, the public test version of what will become Gnome 2.20. Other additions scheduled for the final release include faster desktop search, fast user switching, a new deskbar applet and the AppArmor security framework, released as open-source software by Novell. The final release is scheduled for October 18.

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Meh. I already had a Gamecube.

Yeah, Aron, you could at least put, you know, good animes on there.

Good idea.

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»More Than Global Warming

Remember that the Earth revolves around the Sun. <a href="http://space.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn12520">The Sun is a huge fusion reactor that spikes at points</a>. These flairs can manifest their waves on the Earth with strange happenings.

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Churning motions inside the Sun produce various kinds of waves, including sound waves called p-modes and another type of wave called g-modes. G-modes arise when pockets of material rising up from deep within the Sun get pulled downwards again by gravity, leading to a wave motion similar to the rise and fall of waves on the surface of the ocean. Both types of waves vibrate very slowly. The p-modes vibrate with periods of a few minutes, while the periods of g-modes are even longer, lasting tens of minutes or even several hours.

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»Offshore Or Automated?

Which would you rather have? <a href="http://news.com.com/2100-1014_3-6204115.html">A live person from another country or an automated system</a>. I saw neither and give me people from my own country.

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"The general upheld myth is that everyone wants to talk to an agent," Buckle said. "People are really changing their preferences when it comes to contacting organizations." According to the ITA survey, just more than a third of call center managers believe that all customers would rather speak to an agent than a speech recognition system. Around 29 percent say they have not used a speech recognition system solely because of the cost. However, 62 percent of call center managers agree that speech recognition systems offer a better customer experience than touch-tone self-service systems.

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