Some of his graduate engineers voice alarm about the rivals pouring out of Asian universities and worry that SSOE does so much business in China.

ECONOMIST: America and China

Our voice has more alarm in it this time.

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It also has voice command functions that let users schedule an alarm or adjust volume by speaking to their device.

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Deadlines and all their grim paraphernalia, such as alarm clocks, car services, online or phone reservations of any kind, programming my GPS, setting the hotel's always impossibly complicated alarm clock, and, yes, understanding a voice-mail message.

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