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.”
Finally! A Vital Communique About Guillotine Gary
It looks like all you Speech-Heads are finally getting behind me in my quest to acquire The Guillotine Gary Animated Talking Skeleton. Just this morning, I received a Super Secret Coded Message about Guillotine Gary from a SpeechTechBlog reader–whom I will refer to only as Agent K. The message from Agent K. was important in [...]
My Quest For The Guillotine Gary Animated Talking Skeleton Continues
An examination of the rich History of Speech Technology, reveals an industry dominated by numerous quests–scientists and designers and developers striving to create the latest and greatest in voice technologies. And while these quests have yielded things like TTS, ASR and IVVRs, no Speech Technology Quest has been as storied or heartbreakingly difficult as My [...]


