THE REVOLUTION WILL BE ... VOICE ACTIVATED

Throughout history, revolutions have brought an abrupt end to the status quo and shaped the future. Now AccuTrak Inventory Specialists® is starting a revolution in the inventory industry with VoTrak Inventory System™, its new voice activated system.

"We will revolutionize the way inventories are done!" announced Judi Perrin, president and co-founder of AccuTrak, as she unveiled the cutting-edge voice activated auditing equipment recently. AccuTrak is an inventory auditing and consulting business with franchises across the United States and abroad.

VoTrak Inventory System (VIS), the mobile data input equipment, enables auditors to take inventories by wearing a headset and speaking into a 3" wide, 8" long and 1.5" high machine.

"We are the only inventory company currently that has voice activated equipment," Ms. Perrin said. "By eliminating keying errors this equipment enables 100% accuracy," she added.

The new equipment, created in partnership by Sage Systems Technology and Compsee, is designed to make auditing faster and more accurate, said Billy Graham, who co-founded Compsee in 1980. Compsee specializes in integrating software and hardware to solve end-user business problems.

"When you combine this software with this hardware, you achieve a user-friendly automatic data collection system that has the newest technology in voice recognition," said Ed Cole, president of Sage Systems Technology. Mr. Cole has been in the data collection business for 25 years and with Sage Systems Technology for 13. Sage Systems Technology served as Compsee's software partner for this project.

The light-weight equipment consists of voice recognition capabilities, a full-color screen, an alpha-numeric keypad and a headset jack. Features of the new equipment include the following:

Ease Of Use

"You can train someone to use this equipment in 15 minutes," Ms. Perrin said. She expects the equipment to help franchise owners find qualified employees. The amount of keying experience required to master the KeyTracker equipment currently used to take inventories" limits the number of qualified auditor candidates," she said. Because the new equipment relies on vocal cues more people will be qualified to work as auditors.

Versatility

"With most voice recognition equipment the user has to train the mobile device to his or her specific voice. The novel feature is that with ours there is no training needed," Mr. Cole said. "It has a 100% recognition rate regardless of who is talking into it."

This aspect is especially important in the inventory industry, which sees a high employee turnover rate, Mr. Graham said. "When you're done taking an inventory, you can just turn [the equipment] over to the next person."

Work Flow and Accuracy Tracking

"This equipment can measure a person's actual work flow," Mr. Cole said. The equipment date and time stamps every transaction, scan or input. This enables team leaders to monitor auditors' workflow. "You can know what time they left an aisle," he said. The team leader also would be able to contact the auditor over the headset to tell him or her that he or she is lagging behind on productivity, or missed something and needs to recount, and so on.

Technologically Advanced

Because of technological advancements, this equipment is capable of providing and storing more information than the current KeyTracker, Ms. Perrin said. Currently, to determine variances, the KeyTracker is capable of going back only one job.

The new equipment will have the capability to store every detail of the inventory indefinitely. This feature enables auditors and clients to compare inventory data for an extended period of time. "We will be able to provide small businesses with data that has only been available to large companies until this time," said Vince Perrin, AccuTrak co-founder.

AccuTrak's ultimate goal as a business is to raise the bar for the entire inventory industry's standards, thereby improving inventory procedures and awareness. The Perrins believe this equipment will do just that.

VIS is slated to be in AccuTrak auditors' hands in early 2004.

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