the idea, I think is very useful: I am often in a store, and I seldom buy any mass-produced product without first consulting every review possible
A few days after President Barack Obama signed into law the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, paving the way for speech technologies to permeate the assistive technologies market for those with vision or hearing loss, the federal government also dealt a blow to speech technologies of another kind. The 21st Century Communications and [...]
Lo’ Speech Heads! From high atop Mount Apple, the sentence was handed down. Today, Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO, will have to find a seat outside Apple’s boardroom. Schmidt had served on the board for three years. In a statement from Apple, Steve Jobs noted Schmidt’s contributions and said that the departure was mutual. “Unfortunately, as [...]
Speech Heads, if you caught my brother Adam B.’s article today, Nuance has acquired Jott for an undisclosed amount. The deal is apparently a month old, and was only announced after a web page from Ackerly Partners, one of Jott’s investors, noted that the deal had been made in June. From there, according to Brier [...]
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 [...]
Well Speech Heads, this was a long time coming, but here it is! OUR SPINVOX REVIEW! Some ground rules before we begin: Pussyfootin’ Provisos and Liability Claims Trial Version The SpinVox service I was using was a trial version. It basically worked through call forwarding, sending all my missed calls to SpinVox for transcription and [...]
Speech Heads, mark down another tick in the distrubingly thick book of Awful Things That More People Than You Would Think Do While They Drive. A recently released Vlingo-commissioned study executed by Toluna found that 26 percent of U.S. drivers willingly admit to driving while texting (DWT, Vlingo calls it), despite bans, and despite reports [...]
