Congratulations! Everyone in speech tech is going to be insanely successful.
Our friends at Global Industry Analysts tell us that the speech technology market is expected to grow at a rate of 36 percent — globally — through the year 2015 (OK, that sounded really sci-fi). The industries analyzed? ASR, TTS, and speaker verification. The countries targeted? The U.S., Canada, Japan, Europe, and, according to the [...]
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This is Speech Tech senior editor Len Klie’s first post on our blog. Be nice to him. Welcome to the interwebs, Len. New Jersey-based speech technology vendor iVoice only a few months ago received a U.S. patent for a methodology to make “Talking Consumer Products with Voice Instructions via Wireless Technology.” The company is moving [...]
All you need is love (and missiles).
Despite the fact that our government will launch a potentially toxic Navy missile to destroy a fallen satellite, we here at Speech Tech are still all warm and fuzzy on V-Day. Not because we have a significant other, but because there are some good announcements to make in the wake of our government’s blowing-stuff-up announcement. [...]
Upping the creepy factor?
A few days ago, TTS company Cepstral announced it was providing services for the avatar-based virtual world/community IMVU Virtual World. I wrote a news story about this, but my searching didn’t end there. A press release about the joint venture included a link to a YouTube video posted by IMVU, demonstrating how the program sounded. [...]
