Just when you thought Siri, the voice-enabled virtual assistant on Apple’s newest iPhone, couldn’t get more pervasive, the application showed up on last night’s episode of “The Big Bang Theory,” a surprise hit comedy on CBS about four nerds who work in the physics department at an unnamed California University. One of the characters, Raj Koothrappali, [...]
Speech Heads, I don’t know if you caught my story about VoiceTrust looking to extend its footprint via its new iPhone app, VoiceSafe, but back when I was working on the story spokesman Richard Tigges sent along some publicity screenshots of the program in action. The pictures give you a little bit more of an [...]
O’ fabulous day, Speech Heads! The good folks down at ArsTechnica have uncovered evidence that the newest iteration of the iPhone OS, 3.0, is going to come with new voice control features. The project, codenamed “Jibbler,” (sounds like a discontinued candy from the 80s) is said to have NOT ONLY voice synthesis-whoa!-but voice recognition! According [...]
Happy April Fools’ Day Speech Heads! In honor of this auspicious occasion, Ben Parr of Mashable social media blog came up with a list of five iPhone prank apps you can download and use against your friends, family, enemies, and co-workers. In my case, my brother Adam B. fits into at least three of those [...]
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 [...]
As promised, the Speech Technology News Feature about Google’s new voice search for iPhone.
A few days ago, we brought you this post about Google’s new voice search for the iPhone. And as expected, Google is being typically reticent about this development. But fear not, gentle reader: We at Speech Tech Blog are not done yet. In fact, as soon as I am done with this blog post, I [...]
