Just when you thought Siri, the voice-enabled virtual assistant on Apple’s newest iPhone, couldn’t get more pervasive, the application showed up on last night’s episode of “The Big Bang Theory,” a surprise hit comedy on CBS about four nerds who work in the physics department at an unnamed California University. One of the characters, Raj Koothrappali, [...]
Toyota says that Entune will offer the largest number of mobile apps with Bing, iheartradio, MovieTickets.com, OpenTable.com, and Pandora.
A few days after President Barack Obama signed into law the 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act, paving the way for speech technologies to permeate the assistive technologies market for those with vision or hearing loss, the federal government also dealt a blow to speech technologies of another kind. The 21st Century Communications and [...]
Santos is the first biofidelic avatar–for you speech-heads who cut Latin class that loosely translates to something like ‘true to life’ avatar.
A series of recent postings from the BBC have questioned the validity of the SpinVox as a “speech technology company.” The posts (one news item and a blog post) raise questions around whether there’s an actual speech engine powering the SpinVox service or just an elaborate archipelago of call centers flung around the world, transcribing [...]
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 [...]
First of all, I know what you’re probably thinking out there in Speechlandia. Where’s this much talked, much huffed about Dragon 10 review that the Brothers B. have been promising? Well, we’ve had to keep mum about this because of an embargo, but we’re finally unfettered. Shortly after we began our review process, we got [...]
