Today MetaSwitch and Nuance announced that ivoicemail-to-text software from Nuance is tightly integrated into MetaSwitches flagship CommPortal platform.
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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 ›
Apple’s “Audio UI” has Many “Speakable” Strings and Tiers for Controlling iPods and Such
A friend pointed me to this patent filing from Apple which shows that the company has big plans for spoken I/O for iPods, iPhones and Apple TV.
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.
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.
Google’s Approach to Real-time Translation: A Matter of “Satisficing”
“Satisficing” has long been the unspoken business imperative of the speech processing community.
Microsoft’s Speech Czar Describes the “Speech At Microsoft” Group
Zig Sarafin describes Microsoft’s many initiatives around speech and the Natural User Interface (NUI).
Google’s Nexus One Launches With Voice Enabled Everything
Not surprisingly (since it is first-and-foremost a phone), integration of voice command and dictation was one of the major areas of innovation for the new Nexus One from Google.
There’s a Ford in Mobile Speech’s Future
Ford Motor Company plans to incorporate a text reader as an option in its passenger cars is a precursor to more in-vehicle, speech-based activity.
Nuance Makes Inroads Into Vonage and Verizon
Nuance announced two agreements that will broaden the reach of speech processing to customers of Vonage and Verizon Wireless (on the Samsung Rogue)