Over on Opus Researches Voice Biocon Web site, I’ve been logging a number of stories surrounding the global growth of voice biometric technologies as part of multi-factor authentication practices to prevent fraud for commercial banks, investment companies, card issuers and government agencies.
Reaction to the alleged “Lie Detecting ATMs” being tested by Russia’s largest commercial bank, Sberbank, gives an eerie preview to the public’s acceptance of self-service kiosks in the future.
Microsoft, Google, Apple, Nuance, Vlingo and their partners are laying the groundwork for new advertising and promotions – bordering on “engagement” models.
Cisco announced formal arrangements with a number service providers to offer Quad on a hosted or managed services basis. The chosen service providers include ACS (a Xerox company) in North America, Logicalis UK in Western Europe, and Alphawest (a wholly owned subsidiary of Optus) in Australia.
Nuance completed its acquisition of SVOX AG, the Switzerland-based provider of a full range of speech processing software.
With all the chatter building around social media, data mining and analytics, it’s easy to forget that the telephone remains a frequently used instrument for conversational commerce.
According to a report by Wall Street Journal reporters Dana Cimillluca and Anupreta Das, an IPO is imminent for Silver Lake Partners and TPG’s Avaya Inc.
Now that they got our attention by announcing the “deprecation” of the Translate API, Google is doing something of an about face today.
Claiming “substantial economic burden caused by extensive abuse,” Google has officially “deprecated” its Translate API.
Successful IPOs for LinkedIn and Yandex and should bolster confidence for West Corporation as it gets set to re-introduce itself to Wall Street.