Of Lipstick, Pit Bulls, And Google
As Speech Technology reported here a few weeks ago, Google launched a new audio search indexing experiment that allows users to find spoken words inside videos. Google Audio Indexing (GAUDI) was developed by Google Labs and lets users search for spoken words inside video clips and jump to portions of a video where the searched [...]
Michael, Turn Left At The Starbucks And Proceed Three Blocks To Destination
Following up on October’s Overheard/Underheard about celebrity-voiced GPS, we at Speech Technology are happy to announce that readers can now have Knight Rider’s KITT (actor William Daniels) guide their every movement as they drive to the supermarket or to the post office or into the back of a eighteen wheeler to rendezvous with Devon and [...]
Nuance Wants Your Stupidest Story: An Update
You may remember last month’s story about Nuance Communications and its “Can’t Stop Stupid Calls” contest, to which service representatives submit their most amusing customer interactions and stories about the strange and terrible calls they’ve received. Well, thus far, Nuance has received over one hundred bizarre and silly stories, including the following: A customer who [...]
