Seriously, who can get enough of robots? It wasn’t hard to find a strange robot story for you, my dear speech-heads. Just mere days ago, an I-Fairy robot wed a couple in Tokyo.
Speech Heads, it seems like even researchers and technologists from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI) have also been struck with this summer’s creepy talking robot fever. According to a New York Times article today, a group of a-list scientists that included Eric Horvitz, researcher from Microsoft, and William Joy, the co-founder [...]
SpinVox recently ran a survey among Americans, British, and Canadian users of Ping (a service that allows users to update social media via voice through SpinVox’s ASR) to, at least ostensibly, “reveal new slang emerging in the Twittersphere.” The results produced by the study were the sort just ripe for blogging about. As much as [...]
Speech Heads, it’s a beautiful thing when speech providers compete. Post our review on Nuance’s VM2T, SpinVox (perhaps a little jealous) wrote me to ask me to the dance—-the speech dance that is. In a matter of days, I’ll begin trying out their service. We’re going to be giving it the full treatment, subjecting it [...]
Speech Heads, after many a voicemail message and perilously rigorous scientific testing, we’re finally ready to give you STBlog’s assessment of Nuance’s VM2T (voicemail-to-text) client. How the review breaks down A couple weeks ago, I had a briefing with Nuance Communications about setting the service up where they explained the lay of the land. They [...]
Just last week, British Speech-To-Text provider SpinVox issued a press release listing its “Top Ten Worst Moments In Public Speaking.” The list – which includes everyone from George W. Bush to Kate Winslet – features links to news stories about and YouTube clips of the Terrible Moments in Public Speaking.
