Voice recognition is by no means a new invention. It essentially converts spoken words to text and has been doing it in some form or another since 1952. This week Leila takes a look at Novauris’ Speech&Go London and Nuance’s mobile developer progam for iOS and Android devices.  

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Leila Makki demos Dragon Dictation for the iPhone - an app that lets you speak your emails, SMS messages or social network chatter. The company behind the speech-to-text app, Nuance Communications, recently acquired troubled SpinVox for a budget $102.5 million. Seven months on, we find out how they're combining the two sets of technologies. Watch the video!

Particpant:
Steve Chambers, EVP & CMO, Nuance Communications

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Global Headlines: Times paywall flop; Telefonica goes OTT; HP pads out webOS; and Chile goes neutral

PLUS
- Europe Report: Nuance unveils Dragon Dictation iPhone app
- Asia Report: AlcaLu Launches LTE Connected Car for Asia
- Americas Report: Internet Radio Preaches to the Masses

 

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Codgertations has been specially designed as part of a palliative care programme for industry veterans (old codgers) Martyn Warwick and Ian Scales to cogitate and ruminate on the week's best, worst and most amusing stories in telecoms.

This week... No tears are shed for the aptly-named SpinVox - which ran a mostly call-centre-based translation service disguised as techno-wizardry - biting the dust. They think WiFi might win out over Femtos and they cast their minds way back to the 1990s and the Telco alliance bubble. Like SpinVox, well and truly burst.

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Nuance, the US speech recognition firm that purchased controversial British voice-to-text company SpinVox, tells Martyn Warwick why they made the decision and how the two technologies will remove human help from the vast majority of message transcription.

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