Nuance announced that it is acquiring MacSpeech, a company that has been developing speech recognition resources for Apple’s MacIntosh computers since 1996.
Microsoft
Windows (7) Phone: Where Is Voice?
I saw most of Steve Ballmer’s Windows 7 keynote at Mobile World Congress this morning. Most of the phone’s features were demonstrated and there are some cool ones. Mostly the phone looks different than other things in the market, even… Read More ›
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).
$10 Million Up For Grabs for Location-based Mash-Ups
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.
Microsoft’s Azure to Host SpeechCycle’s Rich Phone Apps
News breaking from the Microsoft Professional Developers’ Conference in southern California let it be known that “Rich Phone Apps” (RPAs) developed by SpeechCycle can be deployed in Microsoft’s cloud computing environment, called Azure.
Real-Time Search Wars Put Spotlight on Profiles and “Status Indicators”
Last week Microsoft triggered something of an imbroglio by forging formal agreements with both Twitter and Facebook whereby their content will be indexed for inclusion in Bing search results.
Spoken Buys GotVoice; Will Integrate VoiceMail Transcription with MS Exchange 2010
Incorporating Spoken’s technology with the new Exchange Server will allow voicemail recipients to read a transcript of a stored message or click on an icon to listen to the .wav file.
Tarred by Danger’s Brush? Let’s Back-up a Little Bit
The Danger Data Loss Episode is a cautionary tale for service providers and end-users alike. It is more important than ever before for people to make sure that their most important data – like your contacts, photos, important documents and projects – are stored in multiple locations.
Gold Systems Makes Microsoft’s OCS More Social
Featured Research Most efforts by Microsoft and its partners make Office Communications Server (OCS) synonymous with the “Unified Communications.” Gold Systems has taken OCS into unfamiliar but highly social territory by recasting elements of the Communicator to accommodate social networks,… Read More ›
Gold Systems Makes OCS More Social
Gold Systems has transformed Microsoft Office Communicator into a platform for publishing Twitter “Tweets” as part of its Social Center concept.