Speech Technology Helps You Blow Crap Up
I used to spend half a day futzing around Apple’s movie trailer site. I’d spend the other half at Gametrailers.com, because I really can’t consider myself a productive individual unless I’m watching video game trailers until the cock’s crow. Tom Clancy’s EndWar looks pretty cool, and is of particular relevance if you’re interested in speech [...]
Targeted Ads and Speech
Today, the Times reported that Yahoo dumped $160 million to acquire Maven Networks, which owns an engine that places targeted ads on videos. Even as Microsoft closes in, Yahoo continues to work it. The middle fish is Yahoo.I’m not sure if Maven uses speech recognition per se, but I assume they do. I don’t know [...]
Crushes & Hexes
Welcome to the Speech Tech blog’s first installment of a regular feature — “Crushes & Hexes.” Appearing every Wednesday, we’ll be highlighting companies, places, technologies, or people we deem praise-worthy, or cringe-inducing within the speech/tech/IT world. As always, your feedback is appreciated! Email us at blog@speechtechblog.com if you have a crush or hex item you’d [...]
The contact center graveyard.
What happens when a company kicks its call recorders to the scrap yards? Where do those quality monitoring systems go to die? The contact center cemetery! Well, most likely not. But today, a company called VirtualLogger announced a new Up-Grade Program for contact centers wishing to ditch their old systems in favor of hosted solutions. [...]
OMG TTYL HAD AKCDNT
The New York Times has an article today about how cars overloaded with portable DVD players and computer keyboards are actually making the roadways considerably more dangerous. Man. Computers? When I was ten, my parents took me on a thirteen hour roadtrip from California to Utah (Violin camp. Seriously). They played an unabridged audio book [...]
All Your Communications Are Belong To Us
Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes Or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you If I ever form a company that provides unified communications, this will be my logo: If the all-seeing eye is too big brotherish, I’ll just [...]
Android (Phones) Invade Planet Earth
I’m not sure about the rest of our readership, but it’s a news-rich day here in the Speech Technology offices — early versions of the Android phone were unveiled today! Ryan wrote a brief news article about the open-source phones back in November 2007, and both he and I have been eagerly awaiting demos of [...]
