Last week, Active Endpoints introduced Cloud Extend Mobile, a SaaS offering that makes it easy for companies to offer easy (“Siri-like”) access to enterprise applications from smartphones.
mobile speech
Nuance-Uniphore Partnership to Bring Voice-based Authentication to Banks in India
A partnership between Nuance Communications and Chennai-based will focus on bringing speech recognition and voice biometric-based authentication to mobile banking throughout India.
Automated Speech Improves Personal Productivity
Voice-based productivity is attracting attention both on the investment and product introduction front.
Bing 411’s Three-Year Run Ends June 1
With very little fanfare, Microsoft is ready to deep six Bing 411, the free voice search and directory assistance service that grew out of its acquisition of Tellme Networks (which took place in may 2007).
Sensory Adds Speaker ID to Wake-up Words
Sensory, Inc., takes embedded speech processing another step forward by adding voice biometric-based speaker identification to its TrulyHandsfree(TM) voice activation technology.
Siri Doesn’t Suck; And It Will Only Get Better
Contrary to what Henry Blodget says, Siri is succeeding.
Ford to World: “Bring It In!”
John Ellis, Ford’s Global Technologist for Connected Services and Solution, summed it up nicely by saying “Before there was Siri, there was SYNC.”
Voxeo LBS Adds Location-Awareness to its Prophecy IVR Applications Arsenal
Voxeo has introduced a new service that enables IVR applications to be “location aware.”
Misunderestimating Siri
Siri has become the benchmark against which competing mobile speech applications wish to be measured.
Novauris and SingTel Offer Mobile Voice Search in Singapore
SingTel and Novauris launched a version of voice search that is tailored specifically for “the unique style of English” that is spoken on the nation-island of Singapore.