Nintendo Launches Speech Recognition Trials
One of the world’s largest game makers is using its technology to help hearing impaired children in Japan, according to Japanese media outlet NHT. Nintendo, in partnership with Japanese telecom giant NTT, is testing capturing speech which can be converted to characters that can be automatically viewed live or for review. Storing data on the [...]
Siri’s a Hit on CBS’s Hit Show
Just when you thought Siri, the voice-enabled virtual assistant on Apple’s newest iPhone, couldn’t get more pervasive, the application showed up on last night’s episode of “The Big Bang Theory,” a surprise hit comedy on CBS about four nerds who work in the physics department at an unnamed California University. One of the characters, Raj Koothrappali, [...]
Building A Brain-Inspired Speech Enhancer
The world could one day see a brain-inspired speech enhancer solution thanks to new research about how sound is coded within the brain. A team of researchers from the Universities of Southampton and Cambridge is working to understand how the human brain hears sound to help develop improved hearing aids and automatic speech recognition systems. [...]
CES: Tune In and Talk To Your TV
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 “Traditional search on televisions is tedious and amazingly outdated,” said Michael Thompson, senior vice president and general manager of Nuance Mobile.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 [...]
The Law Giveth and Taketh Away
A few days after President Barack Obama signed into law the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, paving the way for speech technologies to permeate the assistive technologies market for those with vision or hearing loss, the federal government also dealt a blow to speech technologies of another kind. The 21st Century Communications and [...]
