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Siri’s a Hit on CBS’s Hit Show

Siri’s a Hit on CBS’s Hit Show

By Len Klie on January 27, 2012

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, [...]

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Inauguration Speech to Get Even Speechier With Video Search

By Eric B. on January 22, 2009 | 1 Response

Delve Networks has just released a little app that uses their video search tech to navigate Barack Obama’s inauguration speech. The engine is pretty keen. It pulls up all sorts of key terms like America, blood, dirt, and freedom—in short, everything we love in the U.S.A, my brother Adam B. notes. Still, the engine has [...]

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Fish? Sex? What’s The Difference??

By Adam B. on November 20, 2008

Now that Google has released Voice Search for it’s Google Mobile App for iPhone, reports of problems with the speech recognition are being reported. Evidently, Voice Search works really well in North America, but is posing some challenges for users Britain. For example, one user spoke a search for “fish,” only to retrieve the search [...]

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Google Brings Voice Search To iPhone: The Final Update

By Adam B. on November 19, 2008

As promised, the Speech Technology News Feature about Google’s new voice search for iPhone.

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Follow Up: Google Brings Voice Search to iPhone

By Adam B. on November 18, 2008

A few days ago, we brought you this post about Google’s new voice search for the iPhone. And as expected, Google is being typically reticent about this development. But fear not, gentle reader: We at Speech Tech Blog are not done yet. In fact, as soon as I am done with this blog post, I [...]

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Google Brings Voice Search To iPhone

By Adam B. on November 14, 2008

According to a story in today’s New York Times, Google researchers have added voice recognition to their search software for the iPhone. According to The Times, the new application will be free and available via the iTunes store.  Basically, users will be able to simply speak searches into their iPhone.  The results will then be [...]

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More On VoiceSearchBar: Not A Scam…

By Adam B. on October 15, 2008

Yesterday I blogged about VoiceSearchBar, an add-on that enables speech recognition for Google searches. As you can tell if you read the post–which I assume vast numbers of you did–I had some reservations about the application and, as such, ended my post by asking for more information about the product. Well, one of the product’s [...]

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