With nearly 814 million people set to vote over the next few weeks in India’s general elections, the biggest democratic exercise on the planet, political parties are scrambling to out-innovate each other. Amid all this, some technology startups are finding a killer app for their products, especially given the massive outreach programs required by political leaders for wooing their… Read More
In the two decades following World War II, it seemed there was no limit to technological growth. Sure, a computer was still the size of an entire room, and no one had telephones in their pockets. But techno-utopian ideas like flying cars and jetpacks and meal pills were all being taken very seriously as the inevitable fruits of science’s labor.
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Apple’s Siri has always been a work in progress as she can keep up with many tasks we ask her to do, but at the same time she can certainly use some improvement when it comes to foreign languages or accents. It looks as though Apple agrees Siri could use some improvement, which is why they posted 12 new job listings specifically for their popular speech recognition software.
Apple is looking for a number of positions to work on Siri including software and operations engineers and an interaction designer. The software engineer position hints at Siri getting to know a lot more than she does already as they’re expected to “help build out new areas of expertise for Siri, expanding the product’s capabilities for millions of users.” (more…)
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We know that iOS 6 will bless iPhone users with some in-house-made mapping, but that hasn’t stopped Telenav from bettering its own Scout navigation offering for Apple’s favorite handsets. Scout now does offline navigation by letting users download maps of the west, central or eastern United States over WiFi only. Plus, Scout now takes voice commands, so on your next road trip you can tell it to find the nearest Whataburger whether you have cell signal or not. Interested parties can head on over to the App Store to get their download on, but you’ll pay for the privilege — offline navigation costs $9.99 a year or $2.99 a month, though the free, data-dependant version of Scout for iPhone still includes speech recognition. Still not sold? Perhaps the video after the break will persuade you.
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Telenav’s Scout gives iOS users offline navigation in exchange for ten bucks originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 14 Aug 2012 08:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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We’ve been seeing the growing trend of peculiar services like Cupertino’s Siri, Samsung’s S Voice and Google Now on mobile devices, but up until now, we have yet to spot something similar in the world of connected homes. Having previous experience in the text-to-speech department, iSpeech is hoping to be able to do just that with the world debut of its voice recognition platform for smart households. With iSpeech Home, the company’s aiming to give OEMs and manufacturers a canvas where they can implement voice recognition software into TVs, home entertainment systems, lighting, refrigerators and even washers and dryers — which would, according to iSpeech, open the doors to natural language commands such as “Watch ESPN” or “Turn off the lights in the living room.” As exciting as it all sounds, the company’s COO Yaron Oren did tell us there aren’t any official partners on board at the moment, but that he does expect to have iSpeech Home-powered products within the next 6-12 months.
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iSpeech intros voice recognition platform for connected homes, enables vocal control of TVs and appliances originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 19 Jul 2012 12:00:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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Ma Bell’s been hard at work on its Watson speech recognition system for years, and 2012 has seen the tech show up in an automobile and a real-time translator app. Months after announcing it would grant Watson’s skills to the developer masses, AT&T has made good on its promise and officially released its Speech API. In case you forgot, AT&T’s Nuance competitor’s been tailored for different use cases — including voice web search, voicemail-to-text and talk-to-text — so that it can offer contextually accurate results in any app. If you’re among the coders itchin’ to test out Watson’s capabilities, head on past the break for a promotional video, then click the source below to sign up for access.
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AT&T officially releases Watson speech API, gives devs a bit of babel fish for their apps originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:26:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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