Facebook has acquired wit.ai, a small venture whose “open” approach to natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning has attracted over 6,000 developers to its fold.
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Intelligent, Speech-Enabled Tech Gifts for Your Holiday Shopping List
Amy Stapleton offers a few gift ideas for technology enthusiasts, both young and old, ranging from a speech-enabled smart home device to the latest in intelligent assistants.
In a Vote of Confidence for Interactions AT&T Turns over the Keys to Its Watson Business Unit
From this day forward, Interactions will take the lead role in development, marketing, sales and integration of a full suite of automated speech recognition, text-to-speech, natural language understanding and voice biometric-based speaker ID and verification.
Reflections on SpeechTek: Natural User Interfaces Go Far Beyond Speech Processing
To kick off SpeechTek 2014 Conference, I participated in an exceptionally interesting panel organized by Jibo’s Roberto Pieraccini to discuss “New Technologies Coming Soon.” In retrospect, term “coming soon” was a misnomer. Two of the panelists – Bernard Brafman of… Read More ›
Who Needs the Talking Refrigerator When You Have Amazon Dash?
Amazon Dash is best thought of as a part of a generation of Intelligent Assistants that we, members of humankind, should start getting ready to master.
Great Expectations for Expect Labs; New Investors are Samsung, Intel and Telefonica
This week, Expect Labs added three new investors who “more than equaled” the previous investment.
Now It Can Be Told: AT&T Watson Provides the Voice For Interactions
Interactions and AT&T let it be known that the AT&T Watson(sm) portfolio of speech processing, natural language understanding and text-to-speech rendering are foundational to Interactions’ highly human-sounding self-service resources.
Nuance Launches a Multi-Channel PVA, Combining Nina and VirtuOZ
Nuance has launched a new version of its virtual assistant Nina(TM) – a service that benefits from the company’s stepped up investment in research and development surrounding Natural Language Processing, with an assist from the acquisition of VirtuOZ in January.
Kurzweil’s Move to Google Will Accelerate More Human-like (and Humanistic) Virtual Agents
Natural language processing and understanding has long been the yardstick for measuring the human-like qualities of computers, so it is no surprise that Kurzweil, in his capacity as Director of Engineering, will reportedly focus on machine-learning and language-processing projects.