Google Translate just announced that it will attempt to improve it’s speech synthesis by using Phonetic Art’s products.
I have composed a list of things that I am repeatedly asked to voice that strike me as redundant and could probably be purged from phone trees forever.
Educators say that AT will be particularly helpful, because students wouldn’t have to be taken out of the classroom and could move at the same pace as other students.
Apparently Apple was not content to just make a limited version of Google Voice available for the iPhone. The Google app can now be loaded onto Apple’s iPod Touch and iPad devices as well.
I was in Dallas and scheduled a hotel wake-up call for 7 a.m. When I picked up the receiver it was… me waking me up. It is one of the hazards of being a professional telephone voice.
Personally, I like the really old school stuff I listened to as a kid off of actual records, but you it’s true you can’t use speech to control your record player.
Just two days ago I heard some rather disturbing news out of the Cincinnati area. Regional phone carrier Cincinnati Bell, working with OneCommand, is using technology to help bring holiday joy to thousands of children in the Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana tri-state area, unfortunately, it’s not speech technology that’s involved, and that’s a huge opportunity [...]
