When queried by a new piece of text, the database retrieves the appropriate bits of speech and assembles them in the right order.

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In August 2006 they nabbed their first customer, providing JM Family Enterprises, the largest distributor of Toyotas in the U.S., with a way for employees to check into a centralized database via text messages after hurricanes.

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Text reports are logged into a database, which then sends a maintenance request to service providers.

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The text and the sounds created are catalogued in a database.

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The health workers were then supposed to use Voxiva's technology to collect and enter all the information into a central database, which would spit out mobile text messages telling patients how to stay healthy.

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Account owners will be asked by their banks if they want to opt-in to a database that will allow the sending of money by text message.

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We started relational, then objects, then text, then XML, now a lot of different types of unstructured data types all going into the Oracle database.

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