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 ›
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 ›
Here’s an update on LucyPhone and an “invite code” for the private beta.
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 ›
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.
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.
Verizon Wireless, Motorola and Google promote using “just your voice” to search Time Square on Black Friday.
Today I was introduced to a new service called LucyPhone, which is a Web service charged with the simple task of helping callers to popular toll-free nubmers avoid being put on hold.
Digital mapping giant NavteQ has attracted $10 million in sponsorships as prize money for developers that are into building location-based applications. The roster of sponsors now includes (alphabetically) Alcatel-Lucent, AtlasCT, DigitalGlobe, Imagination Technologies, Intel, Microsoft, and Mobile Distillery.
LinkedIn Developers Portal means we can expect more mashups that incorporate data from LinkedIn Profiles and status announcements.