Use of Voice Prompts in GPS and IVRs

Just imagine a scene that you are driving a RV (recreational vehicle) at a place you have never been before. Driving an 35 feet RV at a busy street in the rush hour may be nerve-racking especially if you are out of your way and need to go long in the busy street before getting your way back at the highway. The old school boy technique of printed maps is insufficient to guide you in such a situation and all you need is a modern technology to help you at such an hour e.g. GPS (global positioning system) equipped with voice prompts.

With a GPS as your navigator, you are at ease in the new area. Keeping on asking to a passerby or missing a vital exit on the map are no more botherations with your new GPS enabled with voice prompts. The exclusive turn by turn voice prompt attribute instructs you to turn in right direction in eight tenths of a mile. The use of a voice prompt enabled GPS is so much while traveling in a new area that you would repent that you decided to get this valued piece of gadget so late.

The use of voice prompts in IVRs is known to all of us today, whether you want to register a mobile complaint or you want to know your bank balance over phone, the voice prompts guide you to get your desired information reach you within minutes, without talking to anyone, without having to please, impress or request any person as in the case of direct conversations.

When we talk of voice over, then the business of voice over is increasing at a rapid rate with increase in animation works and informative documentaries. The animated characters require quality voice overs to bring the characters to life, similarly informative documentaries like jungle safari and other informative episodes need a quality voice over to grip the audience in front of the screen. In fact movies and TV serials too use the voice over techniques to bring continuity to their stories or to narrate a flash back.

Foreign language voice over is required for dubbing feature films, documentaries or TV serials when they are planned to be released world wide and appeal to global public. Today many of the TV channels are being telecasted with a number of foreign language voice overs. This gives an added advantage to the channel to multiply their target audience by many folds and have their reach in diverse geographical regions. The world is fast becoming a global village and most of the businesses and companies target the world wide public for their products and services, for this it would be better if the community of a particular geographical location views and understand your audio-visual in their own native language and their comes the need for foreign language voice over.

Voice over is a fast emerging job niche in the global market and many aspirants are ready to step in this field, although the candidates are needed to undergo a particular training period before they can actually render their service as voice overs.