The 17th of September 2008 opens a new door for myself as I leave my old work place for a new one after 9 years. It's been a long time coming but I've finally found something interesting and new to change to.

I am now working for a company called Adeptra (www.adeptra.com) who specialises in automated voice calls. Very interesting technology even though alot of us sysadmins have done something like this in our life time already.

The system calls clients to inform of possibly security breach of their credit cards or even just that their payment for their bills are overdue.

I haven't heard the system yet but going from the demo on the site, the systems text to speech seems quite well put together and scripted.

I've worked on text to speech before and even speech recognition (funny episode when I told my machine to start IE and it started FireFox instead, maybe it knew better than to run IE. Kept me laughing for a while..) but the technology is a long way from perfection.

So it looks like alot of new reading material for me for some months to come and a new life to start over again but I will keep up the community mods/tweaks that I make from time to time.