- Author
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DeWinter, C.
- Title
- Now Hear This.
- Journal
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Fire Chief,
Vol. 50,
No. 8,
78,80-83,
August 2006
- Keywords
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fire departments
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stress (physiology)
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stress (psychology)
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dispatch
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fire fighters
- Identifiers
- public safety departments; public safety dispatching; Computer Aided Design (CAD); automated dispatching; voice technologies; synthesized speech is software programming based on predetermined phonetic and language-based algorithms; concatenated speech is software programming that makes use of a prerecorded audio database; centralize high-level system functions at the 911 call center; automated dispatching means less staff stress, not less staff