Goodbye Moto…
Yes, we’re crushing on the mobile market…unless your name is Motorola. As you might have heard, in 2009 Motorola will RAZR off (sorry, couldn’t resist) its money-hemorrhaging mobile devices group. From what I’ve been reading, Moto execs rode the RAZR’s success as a fashion accessory at the expense of furthering innovation. Gizmodo published today a [...]
Crushes & Hexes: Boosting Mobile; “Vishing” for a Change
It’s time for another edition of the Speech Tech blog’s regular feature, “Crushes & Hexes.” Appearing every Wednesday, we highlight 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 like to [...]
Does Android Still Listen? Nuance Says Yes.
We had the following comment attached to a previous post: Re Android: Google seem to have quietly removed the speech.recognition package from the Android API. I say quietly: the removal is noted in the API Diff specification for M3-RC37a to M5-RC14, released 15th Feb, but I haven’t been able to find any more public announcements [...]
SpinVox Rakes in the Dough
Whoa. Remember when IBM promised they would spend $100 million on UC software? Well today, British voicemail-to-text provider SpinVox got news that they raised $100 million in funding from Goldman Sachs and other investors. According to an article from CNet.com, this $100 million is only part of the company’s funding — so far they have [...]
Kill! Kill! Kill! (Rainbow Six Released This Week)
Good news for both speech recognition and virtual gun enthusiasts: “Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Vegas 2″ will be released this week. The game, according to a Gamepro.com review, casts players as a “highly trained anti-terrorist specialist who roams around with his squadmates, picking off evildoers with an impressive array of firepower.” Sounds like a typical [...]
Crushes & Hexes
Crush: Developers Answering the Call from iPhone Why We’re Loving It: We hope that of the 100,000 developers who downloaded the iPhone’s SDK will do something speech-related for the product. Though Google’s Android has been met with interest from companies like Nuance Communications, the iPhone’s fate with speech apps remains unclear. We didn’t get any [...]
VoiceSearch 08 : AVIOS Student Application Contest Winners
AVIOS had a wine-and-cheese fest in which they announced the winners of their 2007 Application Contest. I’m sure they’ll post detailed information on the site in the coming days. There were three winners: Michael Turner studied with Jim Larson at Portland State University. He designed a collection of five children’s games. Michael Laskowski, also from [...]
