Today Apple posted a job listing for an “iOS Speech SW Application Engineer.” The job involves working with the iOS Applications Framework Team in “a fast paced environment with rapidly changing priorities.”
Mobile Speech Apps
Jawbone Thoughts App – Combines Audio Messaging with Yap-based Transcripts
Aliph, the company best known for its “Jawbone” Bluetooth headset (and more recently bluetooth-based speakers for iPads), delivered its first iPhone app – a recombination of audio recording, text messaging and transcription.
Pre-holiday News Rush for Nuance
The week of Thanksgiving is usually characterized by a news lull, but Nuance has been an exception.
A Stroke of Genius: Nuance Powers T-Mobile’s Genius Button to Initiate Hands Free Messaging
T-Mobile made it known that it is offering “truly hands-free messaging”, invoked by pressing “The Genius Button” on the T-Mobile myTouch 4G, and powered by the Nuance Voice Control platform and enables users to listen to, send and reply to text messages.
SnapTranslate App for iPhone: Snap a Picture, Hear the Translation
We just received a press release from speech-processing specialist Loquendo to draw our attention to an iPhone application from PONS GmbH, a Stuttgart-based publisher of translation software and dictionaries.
Soft Launch for Sensory’s “Speech Triggers”
In June 2009, I blogged this post noting that Sensory Inc. had packaged “word spotting” capabilities into its firmware in order to support “truly hands free” speech recognition into a wide range of mobile, in car and, ultimately, ubiquitous appliances.
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.
Parakeet: Personal Triage for Mobile Speech
The “Science and Technology” section of this week’s issue of The Economist a feature with the title: “Correct Me If I’m Wrong…”
Machine Translation Making its Presence Known
In recent months, we’ve seen the community of companies offering MT taking significant steps forward. Perhaps lured by market assessments that valued global spending on “language translation and education services” at $12 billion in 2008. Realistically, that may represent a market peak, as relatively inexpensive machine translation solutions gain acceptance in a growing number of use cases where they can easily replace more expensive “human translators”.
The Nuance/IBM Five-Year Plan: R&D Focused on Understanding
Featured Research The R&D relationship between IBM and Nuance has reached its third stage, now that the two companies have entered a five-year joint research initiative. Their collective objective is to get to the next phase in speech processing, where… Read More ›