Nokia has placed voice biometric security on the same footing as “visual search/Augmented Reality” and “Contactless Payments” (using near field communications).
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Nuance FlexT9: A Context-Sensitive Mobile User Interface
Five days into the new year, the folks at Nuance Communications have made good on delivering a mashup of multiple mobile input modalities that give mobile subscribers the ability to choose which which one best suits their needs, in real time.
2010 Reflections and 2011 Predictions: M-M-M Good!
“Multichannel, Multimodal and Mobile” made a nice alliterative mantra for RC (Recombinant Communications) practitioners in 2010.
Google Taking Voice Search To the Next Level of Personalization
Google is starting to put some distance between the Voice Search app for Android-based smartphones and the same application as it is offered on alternatives.
Speech Enabled Mobile Services Start Removing Obstacles to Adoption
Over on Internet2go.com, Greg Sterling posted some thoughts about Google Voice Search.
Goog411 Has Served Its Purpose
Google announced that it will stop offering its free, automated directory assistance service (1-800-GOOG411), effective November 11
GM’s OnStar to Add Speech-Enabled Facebook
GM is not about to let Ford Sync (along with Microsoft) steal all the publicity (and corresponding profits) around voice control of automotive features. Later this month, it is adding several new features to its venerable OnStar service, transforming it from a vehicle tracking, diagnostics and safety feature to a speech-enabled social medium.
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?”
ARM’ed and Less Dangerous: Mobile Speech Made Easier
According to a guest blog post on ARM’s Web site, the next generation of the mobile CPU maker’s flagship chip will be better suited to perform audio (and voice) processing.
Microsoft’s Hawaii Project: Leveraging Its Cloud for Mobile
Last Friday, Microsoft Maven Mary-Jo Foley issued this report providing a few details about Microsoft’s initiatives to marry its cloud-based resources with application development efforts involving Windows Mobile.