In the next decade, most voice calls will switch to mobile networks as prices fall and coverage spreads.
The voice control features let you switch between playing a game and watching television within the time it takes to change a channel, according to Microsoft.
To start with, the switch to native IP voice networks needs to happen faster, with fewer starts, stops, and delays.
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Customers can initiate a BBM Voice call directly, or instantly switch from a BBM text chat to talk, and back again.
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He heard a mute button switch off and a voice he recognized as that of a senior executive in New York came on the line.
He was dying on the phone when he heard another mute button switch off and the voice of an even more senior executive came on the line.
With Audible's innovative Whispersync for Voice technology, BMW owners can also switch seamlessly between reading a book on their Kindle at home and listening to the companion audiobook in the car via their iPhone app-without losing their place.
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An update to an older feature, Whispersync for Voice, combines the two versions, so you can switch between listening to and reading a book without losing your place.
Now, Amazon is extending Whispersync to professionally narrated audiobooks - customers can start reading a book on their Kindle, and seamlessly switch to listening to their corresponding Whispersync for Voice-enabled audiobook from Audible on their phone or tablet, picking up exactly where they left off.
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Our integration with Kinect for Xbox 360 lets customers play and search for videos with the wave of a hand or the sound of their voice, and our Whispersync technology allows customers to seamlessly switch between watching on their Kindle Fire and their Xbox 360 console, without losing their place.
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Every node in the enterprise and metro will have to switch at 10 Gbps to handle the seachange from narrowband voice and slow data applications to various forms of full-motion video.
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