Speech Heads, I know we don’t usually blog here on Fridays, but I just caught wind of a text-to-speech flash greeting card generator even weirder than that vaguely horrifying thing that Nuance put together for Christmas: The CareerBuilder Anonymous Tip Builder The builder is Careerbuilder.com’s of a sick joke. It allows users the ability to [...]
Hey Speech-Heads, You may remember the News Feature we ran online in Speech Technology about the Moshi IVR Alarm Clock. Well, the Moshi IVR Alarm Clock is still making Speech Waves. The Wonder Foundation–founded by Stevie Wonder–and the Sendero Group this month awarded Moshi with the Vision Free Award at the Consumer Electronics Show. The [...]
It seems like the whole speech industry is just a titter with acquisitions and buyouts these days. The big are getting too-big-to-fail, and the small are getting sucked up like plankton through baleen. Heck, it’s not even the small these days. Just in the last two weeks, we saw Nuance gobbling up patents and licenses [...]
You may have read the recent news brief online at Speech Technology about Loquendo adding yet another voice–this time that of Mikko–to their already vast Text-To-Speech Family. And while any Speech-Head worth her salt is already well aware of Loquendo’s TTS, many of us–my Speech Brother Eric B included–are unaware of the Loquendo TTS Family [...]
We recently got a comment about the blog, asking us why we don’t cover big headline items like SVOX buying out the Siemens speech patents or Nuance buying IBMs speech patents last week in this space. We also got a comment wanting to know why we insisted on using the word “Speech Head” and seemed [...]
Speech Heads, I’m sure some of you out there are well familiar with today’s highlighted technology: The Talking Bottle Opener. Any one of you with a speechy sports fan in your life who loves knocking back a cold one while they watch the big game has doubtlessly seen one of these. Personally, I can say [...]
Delve Networks has just released a little app that uses their video search tech to navigate Barack Obama’s inauguration speech. The engine is pretty keen. It pulls up all sorts of key terms like America, blood, dirt, and freedom—in short, everything we love in the U.S.A, my brother Adam B. notes. Still, the engine has [...]
