Obama
Obama Who?: Kindle’s TTS Dictionary May Be More Than a Year Old
Today, The New York Times reported that Amazon’s Kindle 2 much vaunted text-to-speech (TTS) capabilities, provided by Nuance Communications, came up short when trying to pronounce President Barack Obama’s name. The device uttered something closer to Baah-raah-k O-baah-maah (closer to the sounds in “black” and “Alabama,” the Times said. The paper adds that the problem [...]
Reverse Speech Analytics Promise to Reveal What Evil Lurks in the Hearts of Men
For many long years, the speech industry has poured great masses of research and the blood of thousands into speech analytics, trying, with as much muster as humankind can afford, to bring us improved automatic recognition and audio mining capabilities. After the toils of countless men and women, we’ve come so far that many solutions [...]
Inauguration Speech to Get Even Speechier With Video Search
Delve Networks has just released a little app that uses their video search tech to navigate Barack Obama’s inauguration speech. The engine is pretty keen. It pulls up all sorts of key terms like America, blood, dirt, and freedom—in short, everything we love in the U.S.A, my brother Adam B. notes. Still, the engine has [...]
