Apple may have disappointed the world by not introducing an iPhone5, but the one area where the new device does not fall short is that it marks the re-emergence of Siri, which Apple acquired in April of 2010.
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VoxGen and MyDex are Recruiting Qualified Businesses for Enhanced Authentication Project
VoxGen and MyDex are moving their enhanced authentication project to its next phase by recruiting participation from one or more businesses who want to gain a better understanding of how their customers want to carry on commercial conversations across multiple channels.
Waze Talks (on both iPhone and Android)! Thanks to Nuance’s Vocalizer Network
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.
News From Twilio Conference: Carving up $250 Billion Telecom-based Opportunity
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.
Understanding the Intent of Nuance Mobile Advantage
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.
Twilio Brings Contact Center Functionality to ZenDesk
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.
Taming of the Tablet: Touch Is An Important Part of the Ubiquitous UI
Tablets have a special role to play as enterprises extend the reach of collaboration and productivity applications to increasingly mobile executives and other employees.
Microsoft Goes Deep at InterSpeech 2011: Shows off “Deep” Neural Networking for ASR
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.
ALU-Genesys Calls for Companies to Incorporate Smartphones in Conversational Care Strategies
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.”
The Butterfly Effect: Did Nuance’s Acquisition of Loquendo Kill HP’s WebOS?
For many followers of the tablet wars, the death of HP’s TouchPad was a foregone conclusion. But I had high hopes.