VoiceSearch 08 : AVIOS Student Application Contest Winners
AVIOS had a wine-and-cheese fest in which they announced the winners of their 2007 Application Contest. I’m sure they’ll post detailed information on the site in the coming days. There were three winners: Michael Turner studied with Jim Larson at Portland State University. He designed a collection of five children’s games. Michael Laskowski, also from [...]
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 [...]
Speech Technology Helps You Blow Crap Up
I used to spend half a day futzing around Apple’s movie trailer site. I’d spend the other half at Gametrailers.com, because I really can’t consider myself a productive individual unless I’m watching video game trailers until the cock’s crow. Tom Clancy’s EndWar looks pretty cool, and is of particular relevance if you’re interested in speech [...]
OMG TTYL HAD AKCDNT
The New York Times has an article today about how cars overloaded with portable DVD players and computer keyboards are actually making the roadways considerably more dangerous. Man. Computers? When I was ten, my parents took me on a thirteen hour roadtrip from California to Utah (Violin camp. Seriously). They played an unabridged audio book [...]
