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Is it my imagination or has communications gotten worse at Transcend since - ???


Posted: Jun 16, 2011

they appointed that new communications committee (although not sure how they could get worse)?  Same with rewards, etc.   And all those inuendos about how change is great since that head honcho meeting last month - the only change I've noticed is that speechrec has gotten far worse.  Maybe that is what they consider good. 

It's about as good as their Voice Recognition software - frustrated

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so yes, it has gotten much worse.


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