AT&T sells its Watson speech tech to customer care company Interactions
Watson is going to start taking customer service calls as part of a new tech-for-equity deal brokered between AT&T and Interactions.
For English language learners, a digital tool that tries to find the right turn of phrase
Ginger Software, a Tel Aviv-based startup, is using algorithms to help non-native English speakers improve their writing.
Text-to-speech startup iSpeech launches publisher platform; Evernote, Pearson first clients
Text-to-speech startup iSpeech is rolling out tools for publishers that let them convert books and articles to audio. The first two clients are Pearson and Evernote.
Speech recognition anyone? AT&T opens up Watson API
Look out Nuance. there’s a new speech recognition player in town, AT&T. Ma Bell has taken the locks off of its Watson speech application programming interfaces, allowing any developer to use them to add voice commands and natural language understanding to their apps.
Swype’s new “living keyboard” doesn’t just predict: It learns
Swype just got a whole lot smarter. Nuance is updating Swype with the same sophisticated contextual-anguage technologies it uses in its speech-recognition products. The result is what Nuance is calling a “living keyboard” — one that can learn both its user’s vocabulary and his habits.
At AT&T Labs, universal translators and wearable keys
Perhaps not surprising for a telephone operator, AT&T has some cool stuff in the works around speech. The company showed off some of its newest stuff out its AT&T Labs Thursday and some of the biggest news was around the work being done in voice-related technologies.
Microsoft banks on speech to help WP7 catch up
Microsoft is looking at speech technology in the Mango update of WP7 to help the platform get back into the smartphone game. But with Apple also positioned to announce Nuance technology in iOS 5, it shows that speech is becoming table stakes in the smartphone wars.
Nuance CTO: Speech tech will be mobile tech
Speech technology is poised to be a game-changer for smartphones, especially as they get embedded into operating systems and hardware. Nuance CTO Vlad Sejnoha said speech is transforming from an alternative to text input into a powerful tool that can connect users more quickly to information.