It’s not old-timey, but new DA app does involve real operators.
Following a completely speech-unrelated weekend, we’re back at work….begrudgingly. (It’s in the 70s! There is sun!) Anyhow, remember that V-ENABLE test run we’re doing? It’s still going on! But to keep you up to date, here’s big news V-ENABLE released today: it has spun off a new service called FreeMobile411. Available for download, the program works multi-modally. Alas, you must own a Sprint phone to use it.
Round Up & Release
I wish there were two of me. No, seriously — except not in that creepy way portrayed in the venerable film Mulitiplicity. Because, seriously, there is way too much news on which to report for this issue of Round Up & Release. So sit back and relax, unless you live in California, because, according to scientists, you will be hit with a catastrophic earthquake within the next 30 years. No! Google! Apple! I’m already sad.
VoiceSearch 08 : Final-Final Thoughts From Jim Larson
James Larson, Ph.D., is co-program chair for the SpeechTEK 2008 Conference, co-chair of the World Wide Web Consortium’s Voice Browser Working Group, and author of the home-study guide The VoiceXML Guide. He can be reached at jim@larson-tech.com. He was kind enough to submit some thoughts on the recent Voice Search Conference in San Diego. 1. [...]
Crushes & Hexes
Crush: Developers Answering the Call from iPhone Why We’re Loving It: We hope that of the 100,000 developers who downloaded the iPhone’s SDK will do something speech-related for the product. Though Google’s Android has been met with interest from companies like Nuance Communications, the iPhone’s fate with speech apps remains unclear. We didn’t get any [...]
