Is It True? I’m :(
We received a reply from a post I wrote awhile ago about the Android phone project, from Ivan Uemlianin. He writes: Re Android: Google seem to have quietly removed the speech.recognition package from the Android API. I say quietly: the removal is noted in the API Diff specification for M3-RC37a to M5-RC14, released 15th Feb, [...]
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 [...]
VoiceSearch 08 : The Voice Search Opportunity
This is a transcript of the morning keynote panel between Bill Meisel, President, TMA Associates Mike Cohen, Manager, Speech Technology Group, Google Victor Melfi, Chief Strategy Officer & Senior Vice President, Marketing, VoiceBox Technologies Neal Bernstein, Senior Director, Local & Mobile Search, Microsoft Michael Wehrs, Vice President, Evangelism & Industry Affairs [Ed: Yes, that is [...]
Attention Speech Developers: Get Cracking on the iPhone. No, seriously.
Holy crap. Big news from Cupertino today! Resident Speech Tech heartthrob Steve Jobs announced that the long-awaited iPhone SDK will be published. You know what this means: let the app games wars begin. Since the iPhone debuted without speech, Apple opening up the floodgates to developers could come as a means for big-name vendors like [...]
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 [...]
Android (Phones) Invade Planet Earth
I’m not sure about the rest of our readership, but it’s a news-rich day here in the Speech Technology offices — early versions of the Android phone were unveiled today! Ryan wrote a brief news article about the open-source phones back in November 2007, and both he and I have been eagerly awaiting demos of [...]
