Techcrunch along with other news services and blogs are continuously reporting and providing updates on Guy Kawasaki’s newest venture: Truemors. The service basically allows you to report ‘rumors’ via email, text messaging, and yes… phone. They have a partnership with Spinvox which I wrote about back in February as a startup to watch because they [...]
Apparently so… I’ve been using Tellme and its services for a long time. Some of them were extremely good – such as the Traffic Report application which then got phased out once the government implemented local 511 services such as the one in Arizona. On the other hand, Web 2.0 seems to be surrounded by [...]
C-Net recently announced a new service by Google that allows you to perform Local Voice Search. The service is pretty straightforward: you dial an 800 number, and via speech recognition, you can say the category of business you’re looking for or the name of the business you need and will be connected to that business [...]
As VUI designers, we all struggle with how to make phone interfaces and self-service easier to use and more convenient for our users. So in a sense, we’ve become “phone slaves” – with the customers on one side, the business owners on the other, and the telephone limitations (such as its audio-only delivery) on top. [...]
Reading an article on Business2.0 this month, I ran across an interesting article that talked about 25 startups leading the Web 2.0 revolution. There was one in particular that caught my eye since it shows an innovative use of Speech Recognition technologies. The name of the company is Simulscribe and what they do is offer [...]
I’ve recently being readying about all the ongoing efforts to improve the security of Microsoft‘s new Vista Operating System, but I never thought I would find out that one of the first flaws being publicized since the public launch of Vista earlier this week would have to do with its Speech Recognition capabilities. Apparently an [...]
