Recombinant Communications
Bubbly: The Voice Equivalent of Twitter or Just a Bubble?
I’m fascinated with a firm that over the past five years has raised $30 million in venture funding and was recently profiled in Advertising Age as having 100 million users for a product that allows you to leave voice messages for others.
Two Sides of eGovernment
A joint initiative between Cisco and CSC eGovernance Services India, extends medical and educational services to remote communities through “Common Service Centres.”
SF Opens a Door; AT&T Closes One
Two communications-oriented news stories make us long for more “public options” or at least more options for the public to build its own mobile solutions.
Safe Driving: Another Speechable Moment
A briefing with the principals at ZoomSafer inspired me to think, once again, about the important, yet marginal, role that speech processing technologies have to play in making for safer motoring.
Japan’s Largest Wireless Carrier Provides OpenID Authentication to Half the Adult Population
NTT docomo, Japan’s largest wireless carrier, is using OpenID to enable its 55+ million subscribers to avail themselves of “one-click” purchases or “single sign-on” access to information and resources.
Captions on YouTube? Just Another Speechable Moment
YouTube (a Google property) formally launched a service that automatically transcribes audio track of videos on YouTube and displays them as captions for those who choose the option from the “Closed Caption” menu.
Thoughts on Orange’s Curious Choice of MeeGo
One of the surprise announcements from the 2010 Mobile World Congress came from a strategic alliance between Orange and Intel.
Recombinant Communications Brings New Life to Text-to-Speech
Featured Research The advent of Recombinant Communications has the potential to breathe new life into some well-established voice processing technologies – including text-to-speech (TTS) rendering. New applications “read” Tweets, email and text messages easily. New platforms allow tuning of output… Read More ›
TTS Update: Scottish Company, CereProc to Supports Roger Ebert on Oprah
The cause of life-like Text-to-Speech rendering is about to take a giant step forward when film critic Roger Ebert appears on Oprah.