“Hello, Room Service? Can I Order a Monte Cristo Sandwich and a Side Order of Acoustical Foam…?”
Harlan Hogan is a well-known voice actor and a published author of many books about building and recording from a home studio. A must-read for any home-based talent is his book The Voice Actor’s Guide to Recording at Home …and On the Road. Hogan is a pioneer of the idea of the “portability” of recording [...]
Nintendo Launches Speech Recognition Trials
One of the world’s largest game makers is using its technology to help hearing impaired children in Japan, according to Japanese media outlet NHT. Nintendo, in partnership with Japanese telecom giant NTT, is testing capturing speech which can be converted to characters that can be automatically viewed live or for review. Storing data on the [...]
Siri’s a Hit on CBS’s Hit Show
Just when you thought Siri, the voice-enabled virtual assistant on Apple’s newest iPhone, couldn’t get more pervasive, the application showed up on last night’s episode of “The Big Bang Theory,” a surprise hit comedy on CBS about four nerds who work in the physics department at an unnamed California University. One of the characters, Raj Koothrappali, [...]
Here Comes Evi, Siri’s Little Sister
Feeling left out because you don’t have an Apple iPhone 4S and can’t have a relationship with Siri? Don’t despair, True Knowledge this week unveiled Evi, a voice assistant app for Apple OS and Android phones. Evi is available on Android’s app store for 99 cents and she can also be downloaded from iTunes. According [...]
Is Apple Entering The Smart Pen Market?
While the world is enraptured with Apple’s voice assistant Siri, the company may be readying to enter yet another arena, the smart pen market. Smart pens lets users record everything they hear, say and write, while linking audio recordings to notes. First, a bit of background about smart pens, which have been described as Montblanc‐size [...]
Location, Location, Location!
Realtors have long understood the importance of accurately and engagingly describing properties to prospective buyers. Written copy describing the features of properties range from point-form, almost “hostage-letter”-style writing, to emotion-filled, detailed, and flowery listings that border on prose. The goal, always, is to captivate and tantalize buyers, making them add the property to their “must-see” lists. [...]
Building A Brain-Inspired Speech Enhancer
The world could one day see a brain-inspired speech enhancer solution thanks to new research about how sound is coded within the brain. A team of researchers from the Universities of Southampton and Cambridge is working to understand how the human brain hears sound to help develop improved hearing aids and automatic speech recognition systems. [...]
