Congratulations to all of you Speech Heads out there in the IVR space! According to DMG Consulting, the next two years are going to be sweetbacked, money-raking years. The whole kit and caboodle is going to be worth 2.7 billion clams by 2011. In a press release, the consulting firm said that the recession has [...]
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 [...]
Let the beauty pageant begin, Speech Heads! Perhaps as a warming aperitif to our own 2009 Speech Industry Awards—-now accepting applications—-Voxeo has made Datamonitor’s 2009 “Decision Making Matrix” for the IVR space publicly available on their site. Datamonitor recognized Voxeo and Genesys as the #1 slammin’ players in the IVR space this year. The two [...]
Yesterday, the Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG) provided analysis of a joint study between Harvard University and Warwick University. The results, they suggest, put a damper on the unspoken implications of a 2008 Nuance study that found using speech recognition was safer than using tactile controls. The Harvard/Warwick study, which had a quick rundown in Wired [...]
This week’s New Yorker has, of all things, a feature on speech technology. Unfortunately, only the abstract is available online, however the magazine is available on newstands throughout the week. As an added bonus, the magazine also has a piece by George Saunders, a fascinating profile on Keith Olbermann, James Wood reviews Rivka Galchen’s first [...]
Our friends at Global Industry Analysts tell us that the speech technology market is expected to grow at a rate of 36 percent — globally — through the year 2015 (OK, that sounded really sci-fi). The industries analyzed? ASR, TTS, and speaker verification. The countries targeted? The U.S., Canada, Japan, Europe, and, according to the [...]
Today, the Times reported that Yahoo dumped $160 million to acquire Maven Networks, which owns an engine that places targeted ads on videos. Even as Microsoft closes in, Yahoo continues to work it. The middle fish is Yahoo.I’m not sure if Maven uses speech recognition per se, but I assume they do. I don’t know [...]
