The 2012 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas doesn’t officially open its doors until Tuesday but that hasn’t stopped a slew of new television releases that feature voice recognition. “Traditional search on televisions is tedious and amazingly outdated,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager of Nuance Mobile. To remedy that, Nuance unveiled [...]
Speech technology has been an integral part of the enterprise for years, but what about on a more personal level, assistive devices for those with disabilities? The good news is that there are quite a few products on the market for the blind that incorporate text to speech technology. Talking calculators, alarm clocks, several computer [...]
Toyota says that Entune will offer the largest number of mobile apps with Bing, iheartradio, MovieTickets.com, OpenTable.com, and Pandora.
Nuance has announced the results of its “I Speak Dragon” contest, Speech Heads—a contest aimed at asking Dragon users to tell the company how the software has successfully impacted their lives. The awards were given in five categories: educational, personal, social, professional, and legal. The winners Mike Fejes, a public school teacher; Bob Bieber, a [...]
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, if you haven’t caught wind of this, since May 15th Nuance Communications has been running its “I Speak Dragon” contest. The contest calls for users to share their experiences using Dragon NaturallySpeaking in one of five categories: professional, personal, education, field services, and legal. The winner of the contest could get a spankin’ [...]
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 [...]
