The engineers at Waze have steadily added to the app’s voice-based features and functions. As noted in the company’s “By the Waze” blog, TTS-based driving instructions have been a feature of the “Commuting Widget” available for download from the Android Marketplace.
Twilio’s CEO Jeff Lawson kicked off a two day get-together for phone-app developers interested in using his company’s resources to bring new services to market.
Nuance Communications launched a “portfolio” of software products and services to address every enterprise’s need to deliver on the promise of a mobile strategy.
Thanks to an agreement with Twilio, Web-based Help Desk service provider ZenDesk now offers its customers pay-as-you-go access to a”cloud-based” contact center for 5 cents per minute.
Tablets have a special role to play as enterprises extend the reach of collaboration and productivity applications to increasingly mobile executives and other employees.
The scientists affiliated with the Speech at Microsoft Group upped the speech applications ante this year when they presented a paper describing the quantum leap in accuracy made possible by a new approach to automated speech recognition.
At G-Force Melbourne, Alcatel urges companies to “make smartphones and the mobile Web tools for customers or prospects to define where, when and how to toggle from self-service to assisted service.”
For many followers of the tablet wars, the death of HP’s TouchPad was a foregone conclusion. But I had high hopes.
Loquendo’s parent company, Telecom Italia, issued news that it will sell the speech processing specialist to Nuance for an estimated 53 million Euros (about $75.5 million).
Yesterday West Interactive announced a partnership with Syclo, a company whose core products and services simplify and accelerate the process of extending applications to multiple mobile platforms.