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with a little help from speech technology, Roger Ebert returns

with a little help from speech technology, Roger Ebert returns

By Kathleen Savino on January 11, 2011 | 1 Response

The new program he uses, however, has a unique feature: it uses Ebert’s voice when converting his text to speech.

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British Schools Use Speech Technology to Help Students Improve Reading Skills

British Schools Use Speech Technology to Help Students Improve Reading Skills

By Kathleen Savino on December 21, 2010 | 1 Response

Educators say that AT will be particularly helpful, because students wouldn’t have to be taken out of the classroom and could move at the same pace as other students.

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Santa’s Calling, But Speech Isn’t Answering

Santa’s Calling, But Speech Isn’t Answering

By Len Klie on December 9, 2010 | 1 Response

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 [...]

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Swedes to Deploy a Speech Solution for Public Transportation

By Kathleen Savino on November 30, 2010 | 2 Responses

I can only hope that NYC might take a cue someday, since often subway announcements are usually as audible as adults in a Charlie Brown cartoon.

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Talk Like a Dog, or a Jerkface. Up to You.

Talk Like a Dog, or a Jerkface. Up to You.

By Kathleen Savino on June 18, 2010

Voice forge infuses TTS with various personalities.

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Excuse me, TV, Would You Tell Me What’s On?

By Kathleen Savino on June 14, 2010

My grandma Katie, rest her soul, probably would have liked the talking television from Ocean Blue Software, a company based in the UK and Korea. The telly will be able to use text to speech to read programming schedules so viewers (or TV listeners) with failing sight (or no sight at all) can hear what’s going to be on.

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Grunge Buds are a must-have

By Len Klie on April 28, 2010 | 1 Response

A company called Atomic 9 recently dropped off a set of Grunge Buds, a stylish pair of MP3 player earbuds, for me to try out and hopefully write about. While I wouldn’t ordinarily cover something like this, I thought I’d give the pair a try. After all, the company did send over a pair with [...]

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