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Acclaimed folk and ghazal singer Abida Parveen suffered a heart attack (myocardial infarction) Saturday evening while performing in Lahore. She was taken to Lahore’s Doctors Hospital where an angioplasty was performed and a stent installed successfully. The celebrated 56 year old singer in now recovering. Reportedly the doctors treating her say that "she is stable and out of danger."
Abida Parvee has not only instilled a new spirit into the great Sufi renditions that she has become so famous for but has revived, revitalized and popularized Sufi singing and given it national and international acclaim. Well beyond that, her mastery over ghazal and semi-classical singing places her as a legend within her own times.
As long-time fans of the Larkana-born maestro who has won so many hearts around the globe with her passionate performances and humble demeanor, we at ATP wish Abida Parveen a speedy recovery and the very best of health going forth. We are sure our readers join us in these prayers.
Now that we have the good news that she is out of danger and medically stable, maybe a fitting tribute is her soulful rendition of "Chaiti aaveeN wey tabeeba, naeen tay meiN marr gaaeyan" (rough translation: ‘Come quickly, O’ physician; or else I will expire!).
We are glad that the physicians were close at hand when she needed them!
Nuance powers truly hands-free messaging on new T-Mobile myTouch 4G.(CONTRACTS)
Mobile Internet (Boston, MA) October 1, 2010 Nuance Communications Inc. announced that Nuance’s natural language voice technology powers the Genius Button and Hands-Free mode innovations on the T-Mobile myTouch 4G, allowing consumers to speak, receive and send text messages completely by voice.
Users simply press the Genius Button and say “Turn Hands-Free Mode on,” and from there, the Bluetooth-compatible Hands-Free mode allows consumers to speak to initiate an SMS text message, have text messages read out as they’re received, reply to text messages, and of course, send them. Hands-Free mode offers the read back of dictated messages to confirm accuracy, providing users the option to easily edit the dictated message as needed. Hands-Free mode also introduces voice-activated caller announcement, allowing users to hear both contact names and numbers without having to look at the phone.
“Our consumers love the Genius Button’s one-shot voice capabilities, as it allows them to simply speak to use the services they access every day. And now that Genius Button includes Hands-Free mode, messaging and multitasking just got easier. Users can listen to, send and reply to text messages even when their hands are busy, working, cooking–you name it. And with Nuance’s innovative technology, the voice interface has never been more natural to use,” said Andrew Sherrard, vice president of product management at T-Mobile USA. here mytouch 4g review
Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager of Nuance Mobile, added, “T-Mobile’s Genius Button demonstrates how innovative voice capabilities can customize the smartphone experience and add significant consumer value right out of the box–no apps to download, just simple, one-button access to all your favorite apps and services. this web site mytouch 4g review
The T-Mobile myTouch 4G is the world’s first 4G phone to feature Nuance’s full breadth of intuitive, natural voice recognition and text-to-speech capabilities, including Hands-Free mode, which is revolutionizing mobile messaging. Working with T-Mobile, we plan to deliver mobile innovation to the consumer market for quite some time.” T-Mobile’s Genius Button is a pervasive voice interface that works right out of the box–no apps to download, no premium download fees or recurring monthly charges for use of the voice interface. Genius Button and Hands-Free mode is powered by the Nuance Voice Control platform, the industry’s first platform-agnostic mobile solution that seamlessly wraps embedded and connected speech capabilities into one amazing mobile experience.
Nuance’s successful Dragon Dictation is also embedded on the T-Mobile myTouch 4G for fast and easy text dictation in any text field, as is T-Mobile’s MyAccount 3.0, powered by Nuance Mobile Care, which provide customers with the ability to easily access and manage account information directly from their phone.
Nuance’s speech and predictive text solutions enable today’s leading wireless carriers and handset manufacturers to easily customize and quickly bring-to-market advanced speech and text capabilities for today’s fastest-growing mobile platforms, such as Android. Only Nuance speech technology is based on the Dragon speech technologies used by millions of people on their PCs, mobile phones, and other consumer electronics
I heard that she is now recovered and discharged from hospital. Is that correct?
Our prayers are with her for a speedy recovery