IBM’s researchers are joining forces with speech technology specialist Nuance Communications to use IBM’s “Deep Question Answering (QA), Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning capabilities” in conjunction with Nuance’s speech recognition and Clinical Language Understanding (CLU) solutions (not to mention its life-like speech synthesis) to provide hospitals, physicians and payers access to critical and timely information.
Global Bilgi, a subsidiary of wireless carrier Turkcell, announced that it is experiencing the “fastest growth rates in voice signature application users in one year” than any of its peers in the telecommunications industry.
I want to draw your attention to the video below, where a Samsung executive features Vlingo’s Virtual Assistant application running on the Galaxy S II smartphone, which is an Android-based device slated to launch on Vodafone UK’s network later this year.
I’m really looking forward to watching the TV game show Jeopardy tonight, when “Watson,” a computer that’s been fine-tuned by the scientists at IBM’s R&D lab, takes on two of the best players in the history of the game.
With the Mobile World Congress fast approaching, Vlingo deemed it timely to introduce the full range of products and services it plans to introduce in the coming year under its “Virtual Assistant” marketing umbrella.
Waze was one of the earliest mashups of crowdsourcing, Maps and Navigation services on an application for Apple’s iOS based devices. It has, over time, added versions for Symbian, Android, Blackberry and Windows Mobile based devices.
The final session at the Conversational Commerce Conference (C3) continues to inspire some ground-breaking thought.
Google officially launched its own speech-to-speech translation application for iPhone users to download from Apple’s ITunes store.
The first Conversational Commerce Conference (C3) is history. I’m grateful to all attendees and panelists for engaging in a series of thoughtful and thought-provoking (ahem) conversations. For a very good summary (including a pointer to the Chirpstory site featuring a… Read More ›
Nuance is making it easier for mobile application developers to add voice input and output to personal navigation applications by offering Vocon Navigation as a pre-packaged “App Module” to support “one-shot destination entry.”