Santa’s Calling, But Speech Isn’t Answering
Just two days ago I heard some rather disturbing news out of the Cincinnati area. Regional phone carrier Cincinnati Bell, working with OneCommand, is using technology to help bring holiday joy to thousands of children in the Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana tri-state area, unfortunately, it’s not speech technology that’s involved, and that’s a huge opportunity [...]
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 [...]
Converse with Your Alarm Clock.
Most of my conversations with my alarm clock are woefully one-sided. They usually begin with simple pleading (“No. Please, no.”) and culminate in profanity (#$%@, I just want a little more !@#$-ing sleep!). To both protests, my alarm clock remains silent. It doesn’t respond with a snarky, “Up, late now, were we?” or “Get your lazy behind out of bed.”
