- Author
- DeWinter, C.
- Title
- Now Hear This.
- Journal
- Fire Chief, Vol. 50, No. 8, 78,80-83, August 2006
- Keywords
- fire departments | stress (physiology) | stress (psychology) | dispatch | 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