Amazon’s Kindle 2: Copyright Issues And Another Perspective
I’m sure that all of you Speech-Heads have been following the controversy surrounding Amazon’s Kindle 2 and it’s new TTS feature. A lot has been written and reported about the audio book copyright issues that arise from Kindle 2 converting the text of any book into speech. Well here at Speech Tech Blog, I’m not [...]
My Quest For The Guillotine Gary Animated Talking Skeleton Continues
An examination of the rich History of Speech Technology, reveals an industry dominated by numerous quests–scientists and designers and developers striving to create the latest and greatest in voice technologies. And while these quests have yielded things like TTS, ASR and IVVRs, no Speech Technology Quest has been as storied or heartbreakingly difficult as My [...]
