SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation) has purchased the assets of AppTek Partners, LLC; Applications Technology, Inc. and Media Mind for an undisclosed sum.
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A Stroke of Genius: Nuance Powers T-Mobile’s Genius Button to Initiate Hands Free Messaging
T-Mobile made it known that it is offering “truly hands-free messaging”, invoked by pressing “The Genius Button” on the T-Mobile myTouch 4G, and powered by the Nuance Voice Control platform and enables users to listen to, send and reply to text messages.
$12 Million Investment For Twilio Signals Great Expectations for Telco API
I’m deep into writing a research report on the growing popularity of Telco APIs, but I have to take note of the $12 million in Series B funding that Twilio received…
Nuance Working with WGBH-TV to Help Make TV Captions More Accurate
Speech processing has always had a major role to play in making interactive media more accessible.
Vlingo Shares Vision for Voice-enhanced Activities
Hats off to the folks at Vlingo for rendering this vision piece in which cartoon characters depict a set of use cases for hands free, eyes forward speech-enhanced applications in your car, in your kitchen and elsewhere.
Google Adds Voice Search in Dutch
Telecom Paper reports that Google Voice Search now supports Dutch on iPhones and Android-based mobile devices.
VoiceVault Steps up Promotion of Smartphone Developer Program and API
Yesterday, with a post from Nik Standbridge, Director of Product Marketing, VoiceVault stepped up promotion of its smartphone application developer program.
SnapTranslate App for iPhone: Snap a Picture, Hear the Translation
We just received a press release from speech-processing specialist Loquendo to draw our attention to an iPhone application from PONS GmbH, a Stuttgart-based publisher of translation software and dictionaries.
Asterisk SCF to Promote Large-Scale, Open Source Implementations of Cloud-based Telephony
Digium just took the wraps off of an open source development effort for a new version of Asterisk call processing software that has been quietly under development for a couple of years.
Microsoft Lync On Schedule for 11/17/10 General Availability
Microsoft’s Lync 2010 – the enterprise software formerly known as Microsoft OCS and Communicator – has achieved a major internal milestone.