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April 12th, 2010
Text to Speech
MADISON, Wis. (WTAQ) - The Wisconsin Senate could take a final vote Tuesday on banning text messaging while driving. The Senate approved a ban last fall, but the Assembly voted in January to adopt higher fines for texting behind the wheel – and senators are now being asked to go along with them.
The Assembly bill would create fines of $100 to $400 for a first offense, and up to $800 for second or subsequent offenses within a year. The Assembly bill also bans e-mailing behind the wheel – but unlike the earlier Senate ban, it does allow drivers to text if they’re parked or pulled over.
Last month, the Senate Transportation Committee deadlocked on the Assembly measure. But the panel’s chairman let the bill advance to the Senate floor anyway. Lawmakers only have 10 days to pass dozens of bill that are still pending. Those which don’t pass are dead at least until next year. >> WHBL
March 31st, 2010
http://www.ispeech.orgAs texting while driving continues to be a problem on today's roads MSNBC's Tech Watch looked into a number of apps to combat the dangerous behavior. DriveSafe.ly once again appears as a top candidate! >> Full Story
March 10th, 2010
http://www.ispeech.org/text.to.speechWe've talked about the TWD studies before and the truth is in the numbers. Texting while driving is dangerous and a very real threat. Reading those texts is just as dangerous, your eyes aren't on the road.
"The brevity of these messages is what I think is important,” George Fleetwood of AT&T Indiana told WTHR-TV. “Just being distracted for a moment to read a two- or three-word text can bring about the end of your life or maim you severely.” Source
March 8th, 2010
TTSA number of companies are considering enforcing policies regarding cell phone use. The Pittsburgh Tribune looks further into the growing trend.
Cyndi Saxe Schmidt parks her cell phone while driving, but she can't hang up on the idea of a mobile office.
"I do so much of my calling while I'm in the car," said Schmidt, broker of record who oversees three Pittsburgh-area Keller Williams Realty offices. She uses hands-free technology that connects her phone to the car radio. "I hated to hold the phone while I'm driving. It's just not safe."
More companies are taking steps to curb their employees' hand-held cell phone habits in the car, experts said.
"It's getting to be a hot issue," said Phyllis Hartman, founder and president of PGHR Consulting., a human resources firm in the North Hills. "Companies are becoming concerned about the safety of their employees and the liability issues."
March 1st, 2010
http://www.ispeech.orgThanks to your support, we won the About.com's Reader's Choice Award for Best BlackBerry App!
Below is a word direct from About and a link to other category winners and runners up. We couldn't have done it without you.
"This is another application I haven't yet had a chance to try, but I look forward to testing it out. DriveSafe.ly is a free application that offers a safer way to use your BlackBerry smartphone while driving: It reads text messages and e-mails out loud to you, and lets you respond by voice, without ever touching the phone. DriveSafe.ly earned the 2010 About.com Reader's Choice Award for Best BlackBerry app with 77 percent of the vote, easily besting all of its competition, which included AOL's Instant Messenger, Vlingo, and more." >> More
February 22nd, 2010
iSpeechBy: Jon Shirek
ATLANTA, Ga. -- He's a busy president of an Atlanta company, and he depends on texting and e-mailing. But John J. Williams decided he will never again text while driving.
"Only because I have first-hand knowledge, now, of somebody that got killed because of this."
Williams' first-hand knowledge may make him a witness against his former girlfriend, Lori Reineke, who is denying what police are now saying about her. She was accused in Gwinnett County last week of vehicular homicide while texting -- hitting and killing a pedestrian on Sugarloaf Parkway, on October 30, because she was distracted, because she was texting while driving. >> Full Story
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