Well Speech Heads, this was a long time coming, but here it is! OUR SPINVOX REVIEW! Some ground rules before we begin: Pussyfootin’ Provisos and Liability Claims Trial Version The SpinVox service I was using was a trial version. It basically worked through call forwarding, sending all my missed calls to SpinVox for transcription and [...]
Speech Heads, mark down another tick in the distrubingly thick book of Awful Things That More People Than You Would Think Do While They Drive. A recently released Vlingo-commissioned study executed by Toluna found that 26 percent of U.S. drivers willingly admit to driving while texting (DWT, Vlingo calls it), despite bans, and despite reports [...]
If you’ve caught today’s news Speech Heads, Mike McCue, co-founder of TellMe will be leaving the company come June. It seems like all the news is coming up TellMe lately. If you’ll remember, last week we reported on some conflicting analysis on the significance of Microsoft/TellMe’s release of new in-the-cloud solutions. At contention between analysts [...]
Hey Speech-Heads, Check out this comic–all about speech technology–that was sent in by one of our Speech Tech Blog Readers! When my Speech Brother Eric B. saw it, he said: “I’m not sure I really understand it.”
Let the beauty pageant begin, Speech Heads! Perhaps as a warming aperitif to our own 2009 Speech Industry Awards—-now accepting applications—-Voxeo has made Datamonitor’s 2009 “Decision Making Matrix” for the IVR space publicly available on their site. Datamonitor recognized Voxeo and Genesys as the #1 slammin’ players in the IVR space this year. The two [...]
Speech-Heads: My Speech Brother Eric B. just informed me that the Nomination Forms for the 2009 Speech Industry Awards are now ready, willing and waiting RIGHT HERE. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU0MF8pwktg[/youtube]
Today, The New York Times reported that Amazon’s Kindle 2 much vaunted text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities, provided by Nuance Communications, came up short when trying to pronounce President Barack Obama’s name. The device uttered something closer to Baah-raah-k O-baah-maah (closer to the sounds in “black” and “Alabama,” the Times said. The paper adds that the problem [...]
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