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Articles
Microsoft’s Speech Czar Describes the “Speech At Microsoft” Group
Zig Sarafin describes Microsoft’s many initiatives around speech and the Natural User Interface (NUI).
AT&T in the Age of Ma Google (Part 1): The Lobbying Effort
While it has always been a master of manipulating public policy, AT&T’s lobbyists have gone the extra mile (or perhaps the “last mile”) in the past week by filing comments proposing that the FCC develop guidelines for killing off POTS.
Ford Turns Cars Into Open Platforms for Recombinant Mobile Speech Apps
In a keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Ford CEO Alan Mulally claimed that his company is modeling itself after the consumer electronics industry.
Google’s Nexus One Launches With Voice Enabled Everything
Not surprisingly (since it is first-and-foremost a phone), integration of voice command and dictation was one of the major areas of innovation for the new Nexus One from Google.
Five 9’s? Fuggedaboutit!
In this post I launch a new theme in support of Recombinant Communications by talking about a concept that should be left behind – if it hasn’t been totally abandoned already. That is the “ideal” of “Five 9’s”.
It’s Official: Nuance is Buying SpinVox for $66 Million in Cash, Plus Stock
Nuance has acquired SpinVox to “accelarate its voice to text business.” According to the release the transaction was worth $102 million with a third of that coming in Nuance common stock.
2010: Taking Recombinant Communications “Over The Top”
“Over the top” (OTT) is gaining momentum as the “term of art” for value-added Voice over IP (VoIP) transport networks. In rapid succession we’ve seen Avaya contemplating a relationship with Skype, Telefonica’s European wireless subsidiary 02 purchase JaJah and most recently Mark Plakias at Orange pointed me to a “Flash-to-VoIP” service, calling it an “OTT cocktail of Flash and Jingle-to-SIP gateway technology + carrier.”
The Recombinant Avaya: Closes on Nortel Enterprise Systems; Closing in on Skype?
This is a banner day for Avaya. After five months, its proposed acquisition of Nortel ES has finally closed. Now it is apparently thinking of Skype.
Recombinant Communications Comes to the Car, Courtesy of Ford Sync
At January’s CES, Ford Motor Company will showcase a set of voice activated services that are the product of an open API for third-party developers.