By now, the millions of calls originated by people using the “Call Phone” feature in Gmail has re-established the fact that people love to make free phone calls. The question in my mind is “What took so long for Google to introduce this feature?”
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Voice Actions for Android: Speechable Moments From Google Spell New Market Dynamics
Google stocked the Android App store with a set of new “Voice Actions” Applications. From a functional point of view, it is the superset of speech-enabled mobile services.
Time For Enterprise IT to Publish API’s
When Alcatel-Lucent bought Programmable Web in late June, it acquired a company that, over the years, had aggregated a dynamic and lively repository of API’s (application programming interfaces), mashups and, most importantly documentation.
Nuance Execs Note the Changes in Both User and Enterprise Expectations for Speech-Enabled Apps
While the “more than just speech” vibe pervaded throughout SpeechTEK 2010, it does not mean that speech solutions vendors have looked past their core competencies.
SpeechTEK 2010 Digest: Not Just a Speech Technology Show
The fact that impressed me most at this year’s SpeechTEK was that speech processing technologies – meaning core automated speech recognition (ASR), text-to-speech (TTS) synthesis and even my pet interest voice biometric-based speaker identification or authentication – were not front and center.
PerSay Announces VocalPassword Integration with iPhone, iPad
Targeting the growing ranks of iPhone and iPad users, PerSay has announced that its VocalPassword functionality has been modified to allow app developers to include voice authentication with “minimal resources.” By adding voice biometrics to traditional methods of authentication, including… Read More ›
New API Will Make Twitter Activity Easier to Mashup
In a on Programmable Web’s blog, Adam DuVander provides a really good glimpse of the future potential to do lot’s more with Twitter than conduct searches for mentions (or complaints) that involve the name of a particular company or its products.
ARM’ed and Less Dangerous: Mobile Speech Made Easier
According to a guest blog post on ARM’s Web site, the next generation of the mobile CPU maker’s flagship chip will be better suited to perform audio (and voice) processing.
West’s Roll-up Continues With TuVox Acquisition
One thing’s for sure, the age of Recombinant Communications (RC) has rendered moot the classic “Apps versus Tools” debate and obliterated an entire category of solutions providers.
Life After Tellme: McCue Launches Flipboard
Tellme’s co-founder and entrepreneur can add “serial” to his title now that his latest company, Flipboard, successfully launched its eponymous product and initial set of services.