Google announced two acquisitions that make clear a strategy that, on the one hand, will integrate display ads for mobile devices and, on the other hand, will augment the call management and voicemail service that is Google Talk with a set of VoIP services that reach physical telephone instruments.
Promptu appears to be ready to introduce an application for dictating text messages on an iPhone. Has Apple made changes in its policy or architecture?
Incorporating Spoken’s technology with the new Exchange Server will allow voicemail recipients to read a transcript of a stored message or click on an icon to listen to the .wav file.
Speech-based search specialist Novauris has joined forces with mobile, performance-based advertising aggregator Traffic Gate to offer Tokyo commuters free, speech-enabled access to route maps, fares and schedules to support railway/subway route planning.
Cincinnati Bell has selected Yap’s Voice2Text as the basis for its voicemail transcription service.
It’s the eve of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s “Distracted Driving Summit”. Solutions vendors like AT&T, Vlingo and Ford are pre-releasing findings from long-standing research on the impact of cellphone use, especially for texting, on auto accident rates.
Ford Motor Company plans to incorporate a text reader as an option in its passenger cars is a precursor to more in-vehicle, speech-based activity.
Openness and Innovation go hand in hand, but they don’t always encourage creative assembly of code and communications capacity that result in truly useful services.
reQall, a voice-enabled “memory jogger” application provider, and Evernote, developer of a utility that captures and stores electronic information or media, have formed a partnership that integrates of the two services – for iPhone users and other subscribers.
Right on cue with the issuance of our Mobile Speech Report, AT&T and Vlingo have forged a licensing agreement and strategic alliance whereby AT&T is acquiring a “minority stake” in Vlingo (without making the terms public). Renewed interest by AT&T’s… Read More ›