In the last issue of Speech Tech Magazine I had an article about natural language systems (NLS) that served as an overview of the technology. Shortly after the issue went live on the web, we got a blog response from Philip Hunter, the vice president of the Voice Interaction Group at SpeechCycle. I interviewed and [...]
Now back in the loving embrace of our New York offices, I thought I’d take a look back at Voice Search and give you Speech Heads out there some final views. Like all trade shows, there was of course a fair amount of wheeling and dealing-companies ponying up to each other, seeing if they could [...]
It seems like the whole speech industry is just a titter with acquisitions and buyouts these days. The big are getting too-big-to-fail, and the small are getting sucked up like plankton through baleen. Heck, it’s not even the small these days. Just in the last two weeks, we saw Nuance gobbling up patents and licenses [...]
Since I enjoy writing “Crushes & Hexes” so much, in the coming weeks, the blog will continue to feature breaking news updates from Ryan, while I focus only on regular features and product reviews. The newest addition to our features is “Round Up & Release,” a compilation of the biggest stories and developments from the [...]
