I recently ran across the fantastic short film “Design the New Business” which you can watch online. It talks about the trials and tribulations designers and business people go through when they work together in new ways to solve challenging problems facing businesses today (sounds familiar?). In particular, I really appreciate the fact that it [...]
I just realized that for some reason the digital handout for my presentation isn’t available on SpeechTEK’s site. While I sort that out, I though about proactively posting the deck for anyone wanting to download a copy. The session is entitled “Lessons in Multimodal Interaction Design”, and particularly, the topic I’m going to cover is [...]
A very interesting report from Nielsen was recently published highlighting some of the challenges mobile users face when accessing web information. Aside from the sad news about average success rates being around 59%, it was interesting to me to see how most of the Mobile Problems outlined in the report can be actually seen as [...]
Outbound calling (meaning automated phone calls that go out to specific individuals) is a very profitable business that thrives at times such as this one when companies need to reach more consumers yet want to reduce the costs of making those calls since most of the time they are nothing more than the equivalent of [...]
I have to admit that in this time and age, even with all the advantages technology provides, when it comes down to keeping track of pending items, errands and to-do-items, I tend to stay in the analog world (read pen and paper). So I was very excited to read about a new smart phone app [...]
Mobile search has been identified as one of those applications where Speech Recognition can become the killer app. There are many instances in which speech recognition has been integrated with mobile devices, some of which include doing recognition embedded on the device, some others that perform the recognition on “the network” (a remote server farm) [...]
We’ve talked in the past about the use of speech recognition in the realm of note taking, where tools such as Jott allow you to obtain a text version of a voice message, making it easier to document and search for information. Well, Microsoft just recently unveiled a new application of speech recognition, but this [...]
It seems after all the criticism Amazon received on the user interface of it’s original Kindle, they’ve addressed not only some of the concerns but also took some of the suggestions which are now part of their second version of the device. Some of those suggestions included adding speech-to-text capabilities to the Kindle 2.0, making [...]
As I mentioned here and here, one of the most appealing aspects of the G1 phone is the openess of the platform which allows developers to get really creative when it comes to apps that leverage all the features contained in the phone. One company worth mentioning is JOYity which was recently covered by TechCrunch. [...]
As a follow-up to my previous post, it was interesting to read David Pogue’s review of Google’s First Phone, particularly in regards to some of the UI Compromises designers had to make on this first iteration of the Android-based phone: The Menu Button – This feature provides context-relevant options based on the current task. David [...]
