Weekly New Redux…
Today, I came across some novel(ish) uses for text-to-speech:
- Security: Campus emergency notification system employs TTS for playback of notifications, sent to student/staff phones.
- Accessibility: ‘Seeingeyephone’ NFC application reads product information to users
On the mainstream speech recognition front:
- Voxeo releases new developer packages, claiming improved internationalization, availability.
- As a reminder of a sadder hour of the industry, Lernout and Houspie goes on trial this week.
And some Web3.0 language tech news:
- This week at the Semantic Technology Conference in San Jose…