Someday, just about anything and everything will have a brain of some kind. But what about a voice?
Voice Recognition
Voice Recognition’s Future: Hands-Free Siri Could Someday Be Possible
Controlling your phone by voice is great, but it’d be even better if you could do it without ever laying hands on the device.
Nuance Communications, the maker of Dragon dictation software, is working on it, according to a …
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The Sad Fate of a Great Company
The New York Times‘ Loren Feldman has a great story on the lawsuit that Jim and Janet Baker, founders of voice-recognition pioneer Dragon Systems, are pursuing against Goldman Sachs, which advised them when they sold their company to Belgium-based Lernout & Hauspie:
And yet, even today what happened next to the Bakers seems remarkable.
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Apple Left Siri Off the New iPad Because Siri’s Not Ready for It
Pick up a new “resolutionary” iPad this Friday and one thing you won’t be able to do is ask it when the world will end (hint: not in 2012), what the meaning of life is, or whether Google makes better phones. That’s because it …
Siri: Can Apple Sell the Concept of Natural Language Computing?
One of the main iPhone 4S features touted by Apple during yesterday’s announcement was the phone’s built-in Siri feature. Siri is a virtual personal assistant with additional dictation features that lets you accomplish various tasks simply by speaking to your phone.
If it sounds like a familiar concept, it is. Similar apps have …
Is Apple Joining The Search By Voice Command Game?
New job postings on the Apple site show that the company is interested in people who can develop speech recognition smartphone technology. While any person can just put two and two together and assume the company wants to improve their voice command features, which when I use it to call my dentist it calls my Mom at work, 9 to 5 Mac is
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