Adventures at VoiceSearch 08!
I’m writing this from the first annual Voice Search Conference in San Diego. I’m also banging this stuff out real quick-like so I apologize in advance for any slovenliness of form and grammar. Additionally, the chambermaid at the Chateau de Marriott is battering the door because she insists my bed needs to be made and [...]
WE WILL BRING LIGHT (and TTS, and RSS) TO MORTAL MEN
If you go to our website, you’ll notice that some of our webstories are speechified. We’re using Loquendo’s TTS engine. The voice is called Alison. We chose her because we liked her concatenation and she didn’t sound too threatening. We also convinced our editor-in-chief that she was actually Cokie Roberts. Tell us what you think [...]
Crushes & Hexes
It’s time for another edition of the Speech Tech blog’s regular feature, “Crushes & Hexes.” Appearing every Wednesday, we highlight 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 like to [...]
Congratulations! Everyone in speech tech is going to be insanely successful.
Our friends at Global Industry Analysts tell us that the speech technology market is expected to grow at a rate of 36 percent — globally — through the year 2015 (OK, that sounded really sci-fi). The industries analyzed? ASR, TTS, and speaker verification. The countries targeted? The U.S., Canada, Japan, Europe, and, according to the [...]
UC, IC, Nobody Cs
A lot of vendors have been hawking their UC solutions in recent months. Perhaps Microsoft’s solution released last year is indeed sparking the market. But whenever I ask a vendor what UC entails, the response is never clear to me. Generally, I’ll get a long silence followed by the business benefits of deploying a UC [...]
Attention Speech Developers: Get Cracking on the iPhone. No, seriously.
Holy crap. Big news from Cupertino today! Resident Speech Tech heartthrob Steve Jobs announced that the long-awaited iPhone SDK will be published. You know what this means: let the app games wars begin. Since the iPhone debuted without speech, Apple opening up the floodgates to developers could come as a means for big-name vendors like [...]
