Bhubaneswar, Aug 21 (IANS) Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Friday said he had sent an SMS to vote in favour of a dance group from the state that has reached the final round of TV reality show “India’s Got Talent”, which will be telecaast live Saturday.
“I have already sent my SMS in favour of the group,” Patnaik told reporters here.
Thousands of workers and leaders of Patnaik’s Biju Janata Dal (BJD) have also sent similar SMSes, a BJD leader told IANS.
Prince Dance group from Berhampur town, nearly 180 km from here, has been selected out of 45,000 competitors to perform in the grand finale round of the show to be telecast live on Colors channel Saturday.
The team that comprises 26 artistes will compete with 10 other groups for the prize. Mostly below 22, none of the team members are professional dancers. Their 26-year-old dance teacher Reddy said he also never had any formal training.
They had earlier danced to the tune of “Sare Jahan Se Acha” and the audience and the judges — Shekhar Kapur, Kirron Kher and Sonali Bendre — were spellbound.
“We are practising for more than eight hours every day. We hope people of our state will send SMS votes for us in large numbers,” Reddy told IANS over phone from Mumbai.
Relatives, friends, corporate houses, social activists and sand artist Sudarsan Pattnaik were among those to have launched campaigns in the past few days and appealed to people to vote for the group.
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SMS Voting
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<---Parents to be updated on kids performance through SMS!--->
The school authorities have introduced the SMS system wherein parents will be informed about their child's activities and other issues on their cell phones through text messaging.
A database of students of the primary wing has also prepared for the purpose. Discussing the endeavour, Indu Sharma, primary section in charge said, "Sending circular causes wastage of paper. We have to provide information to parents on various issues and sometimes student forget to convey information to their guardians.
As such, we thought of informing them through text messaging." So we are bound to send the written information and sometimes even such an exigency appears that it takes lot of time to phone every parent so we prepared the data base
of students and have started sending messages to the students.
Indu said during the recent rainfall which lashed the city, all roads were blocked and the authorities had to announce a holiday. As such, the need for such a facility arises. "We can inform parents well in advance about any emergency situation. It's a fast way of communication,' Indu said. Meanwhile, another school to follow suit is Sacred Heart Convent School, Sarabha Nagar, which started the practice last year.
Text messages are sent to parents of students missing school, classes or examinations. Meanwhile, parents have hailed the decision.
Pankaj Khurana, father of a class IX student said, "Students are quite young to understand what is right and wrong for them. If parents are informed well in time, they can easily counsel their children and keep a on them."
Talking on similar lines, another parent said, "The move is highly appreciable. Parents cannot go to the school everyday to keep a check on their children. It is great that they will be updated on various issues happening in the schools."
<--Voice SMS comes with added value-->
There are times when keying in an short message (text) is a hassle especially when done in a hurry and cannot give voice to your message. Most times text messages don’t convey your emotions which is frustrating most of the time. Besides, who wants to work with a keypad when you can speak right from your heart?
Significant disadvantages of text messaging include the time it takes to type out a message using the limited mobile phone keypad and the lack of emotion that only a voice can deliver. Many people resort to the cryptic computer-speak prevalent within computer messaging today, leaving a mobile user in receipt of these abbreviated messages at a disadvantage.
In a bid to bridge the gap, telecommunication companies have introduced Voice SMS or texting as part of the services on offer. Voice SMS is a feature/product that allows users to send voice messages to mobile phones using SMS in a non-intrusive way.
Voice SMS is a fast way to send a short message to another mobile subscriber that can be retrieved at the subscriber’s convenience. In that sense it’s similar to an SMS text message but a cheaper version. This is because there are no keystrokes to compose the message, you just talk.
When a Voice SMS is sent, an SMS text message is received saying “You have a Voice SMS. Click here to listen to your message.” One click and you’re listening to your new message via a human voice. In some implementations, it says “Dial *0* to listen to your message. That’s four clicks with the “Send” key, but it’s equally easy for users.
For example MTN’s and UTL Voice SMS services are based on pioneering Voice SMS technology from Kirusa, a leading vendor of Voice SMS and a leading developer of mobile value added services. The good thing about Voice SMS is that it is bolstered by additional innovative features like Scheduling and Dynamic Group Voice SMS.
Voice SMS allows the subscribers to send messages by voice, eliminating the need to type. It enables the subscribers to communicate faster, easier, and with added personal touch by conveying emotions, to their friends, relatives and colleagues. The Voice SMS facility has achieved vast acceptance across the globe for its benefits in surpassing the limitations of text messages.
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