The idea that Nuance Communications has been in talks to buy SpinVox has been making the rounds for long enough that it deserves some serious thought.
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Amazon Web Services Group Introduces New Way to Buy Capacity in its Elastic Cloud 2
Cloudspace is becoming a commodity that can be bought and sold on the “spot market.” That’s more true than ever with the introduction of real time auctions for “instances” in Amazon.com’s Elastic Cloud 2 (EC2).
Cisco, BT Expand IP-Telephony Apps in the Cloud
As we progress into the second decade of the new millennium, we expect to see more partnerships that resemble BT’s agreement with Cisco to embed the resources that support rich phone apps into the telephony cloud. As noted here BT… Read More ›
Update: Proposed “Dot Rev” of Dragon Dictation on the iPhone Will Address Privacy Concerns
One particular aspect of Nuance Communications Dragon Dictation for the iPhone has captured the imagination of the connected public, and not necessarily in a good way. In this blog post, Nuance’s Michael Thompson addresses the concerns of a group of… Read More ›
Nuance Debuts Dragon Dictate for iPhones
Nuance Communications can once again claim a coup as its Dragon Dictation application, by our assessment, is the first voice-to-text rendering application that can support SMS texting on an iPhone. Certainly, there are a number of speech-enabled applications on Apple’s… Read More ›
Sandata Taps PerSay For Home Healthcare Services
At-home healthcare services appear a perfect fit for voice biometrics and remote authentication. According to the American Association of Homecare some eight million Americans currently require some type of medical care in the home. But while at-home healthcare services provide… Read More ›
Quick Update on LucyPhone; Along with an “Invite Code”
Here’s an update on LucyPhone and an “invite code” for the private beta.
Skype Expands Launch of SIP-based Beta to All Businesses
In response to demand from “nearly 10,000 companies” Skype has expanded the availability of its Skype for SIP “beta” service to all comers. Phil Wolff explains provides detail on the service in this post on Skype Journal. But the gist… Read More ›
Parkmobile Launches Voice-controlled Parking Controls in Grand Rapids, MI
Voice plays an important role in a new service, launched in Grand Rapid, MI, which enables mobile subscribers to use their wireless phones to pay for parking.
Nuance Voicemail-to-Text Powers AT&T’s Transcription Service
It’s official. The platform for AT&T’s Voicemail to Text service is Nuance Communications. As described on the AT&T Mobility Web site, the carrier charges $9.99 per month for the service, which enables subscribers to receive transcriptions of voicemail messages as email and/or text messages in addition to the traditional dial-in-and-retrieve method.