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Facebook Acquisition to Socialize Speech-to-Speech Translation
As part of its successful efforts to build major mobile mojo, Facebook is now poised to add “speech-to-speech” translation to its repertoire.
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OK Google… Now We’re Talking!
Google’s new phone, the Moto X, enables its owners to take command of their digitized world without pressing a button, making a gesture or touching a screen.
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Authentify’s xFA(TM) Brings Smartphones and Unique Cryptographs Together with Voice Authentication
A new service, called xFA(TM), from Authentify provides a glimpse of multifactor authentication’s future. Building on the company’s legacy of certificate-based, out-of-band, phone-based user authentication, the company is employing a new, screen-based approach to replacing OTP (one-time passwords) or KBA (knowledge-based authentication) in order to log-on to a secure network.
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Webcast: “The Defining Moments Series: Personal Virtual Assistants”
Siri Co-Founder Norman Wanarsky joins Interactions Corp. and Opus Research in a live webcast on mobile “personal virtual assistants”
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Using Voice Biometrics for Strong Authentication and Risk Reduction
This era of self-service, cloud computing and Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) has significantly accelerated the occurrence of fraudulent access, data breaches and identity theft. Hackers and fraudsters have more avenues of ingress to steal credentials and have their way with enterprise networks and data. Voice and multi-factor authentication offer an effective alternative to the prevailing, often ineffective methods and practices.
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Project Ansible: Siemens and frog design Think Different About UC
Marking a major milestone in the roll-out of its next generation of open, unified communications (UC) hardware, software and services, Siemens Enterprise Communications has begun to unveil selected features of Project Ansible.
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Chinese Smartphone Maker TCL Selects Nuance’s Swype as Default Keyboard for U.S. Market
Up-and-coming Chinese OEM, TCL Communications Technology Holdings Ltd, has expanded its licensing agreement with Nuance, making Swype the default keyboard for its line of Android-based smartphones sold in the U.S.
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Aspect Software Buys Voxeo for $150 million; Augments Self-Service and Cloud Offerings
Aspect Software, which provides customer interaction management, workforce optimization and business process automation software to companies around the world, is buying multi-channel self-service technology specialist Voxeo for a reported $150 million.
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Live Webcast: Bimodal Biometrics – The Case for Simple, Strong Mobile Authentication
Voice biometrics are a natural for mobile phones, but may not always achieve the level of accuracy that some banks or payment processors require to carry out certain transactions. Front-facing cameras provide a mechanism for adding facial to voice recognition… Read More ›
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Automated Speech in Cars: Regressing to the Mean (Not Mean-Spirited)
As automakers seek differentiation through innovation, speech-enabled solution providers are coming under criticism and being called upon to step up their game.