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This is Speech Tech senior editor Len Klie’s first post on our blog. Be nice to him. Welcome to the interwebs, Len. New Jersey-based speech technology vendor iVoice only a few months ago received a U.S. patent for a methodology to make “Talking Consumer Products with Voice Instructions via Wireless Technology.” The company is moving [...]
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 [...]
The contact center graveyard.
What happens when a company kicks its call recorders to the scrap yards? Where do those quality monitoring systems go to die? The contact center cemetery! Well, most likely not. But today, a company called VirtualLogger announced a new Up-Grade Program for contact centers wishing to ditch their old systems in favor of hosted solutions. [...]
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 [...]
Upping the creepy factor?
A few days ago, TTS company Cepstral announced it was providing services for the avatar-based virtual world/community IMVU Virtual World. I wrote a news story about this, but my searching didn’t end there. A press release about the joint venture included a link to a YouTube video posted by IMVU, demonstrating how the program sounded. [...]
