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 [...]
All you need is love (and missiles).
Despite the fact that our government will launch a potentially toxic Navy missile to destroy a fallen satellite, we here at Speech Tech are still all warm and fuzzy on V-Day. Not because we have a significant other, but because there are some good announcements to make in the wake of our government’s blowing-stuff-up announcement. [...]
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 [...]
