Happy Halloween: This Year I’m Dressing As VoiceXML
Happy Halloween from everyone here at the Speech Tech Blog. To help you celebrate All Hallow’s Eve, we bring you the following: 1. Speech Enabled (Sort Of) Halloween Toys 2. The Truly-Creepy-But-Not-In-A-Good-Way Talking Tombstone 3. The Top Five Speech Technology Magazine Halloween Costumes: Dragon Naturally Speaking V10 The CosmoCall Universe Architecture Overview Steve Jobs Possibly [...]
Convention Fever And Shameless Plugs: An Open Letter
Dearest Readers: I have returned from Florida–the sun, the sand, the interactive voice response system workshops–and now seems like a good time to update you on a couple of things: In the wake of Nuance Conversations 2008 in Orlando, it would be foolish of me not to remind you about Speech TEK 2009 at the [...]
Conversations 2008: Day 3: The Final Countdown
Well, this is the end of the line for Conversations 2008. All around me, people are packing up their bags, pocketing complimentary donuts and heading off in the direction of a fleet of airport-bound shuttle buses. Colin Mochrie and Brad Sherwood closed out the convention with a hilarious improv comedy show before a packed house [...]
Conversations 2008: Day 2: Part II
As promised, we at Speech Tech Blog deliver the goods on the great Keynote by MR. DAN ARIELY: What follows is a collection of excerpts and summaries from Dan Ariely’s Keynote, “Serving the Irrational Customer: What Drives Consumer Behavior.” Ariely is the author of Predictably Irrational: The Hidden forces that Shape our Decisions and is [...]
Conversations 2008: Day 2: Part I
Let’s get right to the heart of this thing: It appears that many of my fellow conference attendees failed to make it to Jeanne Bliss‘s 8:30 AM Keynote. Apparently that aforementioned “Dinner at SeaWorld” got out of hand and when everyone finally crawled out of bed–groggy and bleary-eyed–the main event was all but over. But [...]
Conversations 2008: Day 1
As I write this, I’m reclining in my swank room at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, sifting through my notes from a day of keynotes and breakout sessions, and sipping some sort of tropical drink with lime chunks, a pink umbrella, and what I imagine is some high-quality imported rum. One of today’s highlights was [...]
Reader Mailbag
Yesterday, we at Speech Tech Blog got TWO emails from readers. TWO! Granted both emails were from the same person. But still. That increases our reader mail tally by 200 percent! I hate to admit it, but there are times–picture a man sitting in a cold, dark office, listening to the sounds of homeless people [...]
