Google Talks Speech with Europe Show Organizers
David Burke, engineering director at Google and a scheduled keynote speaker for this year’s SpeechTEK Europe conference (which takes place in London May 25 and 26) gave a preview of his speech recently during an interview with the event organizers. In the first of a two-part interview, he talks exclusively about smartphones, Android, and Google’s [...]
Today I Issue A Challenge To YouTube/Google That Will Be Largely Ignored
Hey Speech-Heads, By now, everybody knows about Google expanding its robo-transcription function to include every video on YouTube. In fact, you may have read about it in a recent story in Speech Technology. Well, that’s all fine and good. We here at SpeechTech Blog love transcription as much as the next guy. But every video? [...]
Speech Technology In The New York Times!??! You Bet Your Sweet Bippy!
Hey Speech-Heads, My Speech-Brother Eric B. and I were enjoying a leisurely brunch here at The Home Office–reading the newspaper, sipping mimosas and eating our traditional Speech Tech Breakfast of poached eggs, kippers, rashers, fried bread and Jell-O–when we came across a story on the cover of The New York Times about speech technology. Needless [...]
Fish? Sex? What’s The Difference??
Now that Google has released Voice Search for it’s Google Mobile App for iPhone, reports of problems with the speech recognition are being reported. Evidently, Voice Search works really well in North America, but is posing some challenges for users Britain. For example, one user spoke a search for “fish,” only to retrieve the search [...]
