Researchers at Clarity Labs at the University of Michigan recently launched Sirius, which they refer to as “an open end-to-end standalone speech and vision based intelligent personal assistant (IPA)….”
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The Case for Small Business VoIP: Incumbents’ Failure on Moving Day
Opus Research has moved offices (roughly 500 Yards) from 300 Brannan Street to 350 Brannan Street.
Update: Finally, You Don’t Need YAFN (Yet Another Ficticious Number) for Google Voice. Too Little, Too Late.
Google is giving some subscribers to Google Voice the ability to make their existing wireless numbers into the “single number” for their Google Voice accounts. The impact on the IP-telephony landscape will be negligible and subtle.
Google Has “Home Field” Advantage on the Android Home Page
Google made a major move toward streamlining access to Google Voice on Android-based devices by introducing a set of widgets for a number of Google Voice features and functions.
Gmail’s “Call Phone” Feature: What took so long?
By now, the millions of calls originated by people using the “Call Phone” feature in Gmail has re-established the fact that people love to make free phone calls. The question in my mind is “What took so long for Google to introduce this feature?”
In U.S., Google Voice is Now “Open For All”… Release the Hounds!
Google has shed the last shred of exclusivity around its Web-based call management and messaging management mash-up (aka Google Voice).
Google Voice/Gmail Integration Is A Natural
This morning my RSS feed had a few pointers to a blog post which asserts that Google has already cobbled together its technologies to enable Gmail users to originate telephone calls.
Captions on YouTube? Just Another Speechable Moment
YouTube (a Google property) formally launched a service that automatically transcribes audio track of videos on YouTube and displays them as captions for those who choose the option from the “Closed Caption” menu.
Google Voice Offered Through Mobile Browsers to iPhone and Palms
TechCrunch’s Erick Schonfeld reported that Google is about to launch a mobile Web site that extends the capabilities of Google Voice to the Apple iPhone and Palm Pre/Pixi. While he calls it an “end run” around Apple’s governance of the… Read More ›
Fear No Google: Or What to Do As the Sultan of Search Morphs into a Phone Company
Featured Research Google continues to impress fans and pundits with its VoIP-based utilities (Google Voice), multimedia instant messaging client (Google Talk), branded DNS, mobile OS, scads of “dark fiber” and now, reportedly, a phone of its own. Incumbent carriers and… Read More ›