Okko in Speech

On the WWW today:

• Article providing roundup of some semantic web solutions.
• InQuira executive to discuss benefits of NLP for search engine optimization.

Today on the WWW:

• Software Ali Baba parses medical abstracts, generates visual network or terminology using natural language processing.
• A redux of latent semantic indexing (LSI) for use in search engines.

Today on the WWW:

• Nuance announces voice search framework, based on directory assistance solutions portfolio.
• Epson releases speech synthesis chip, powered by Fonix engine, allows mixed output of synthesis and pre-recorded speech.
• Loquendo text-to-speech gives speech to Activa Multimedia iVAC avatars.

Today on the WWW:

• Haley 6.0, a business rules management system, allows business rules extraction using natural language processing.
• Uses of voice-enabled wikis.

On the WWW today:

• Wizzard provides new Skype extra for contact list management, featuring custom TTS announcemens and alerts.
• TransClick and ChatStats provide on-the-fly translation of IM chats.

Daily News Redux:

• Some electronic dictionary news. Coolsoft Coolexon electronic dictionary features 60 languages, including translation and TTS accessibility features, is only 3.3MB large. Also in the news, Ultralingua and Collins partner to release electronic dictionaries.
• Some business automation success stories using speech recognition.
• Some more semantic search engine-related news featuring ZoomInfo and Cognition.
• Arab language speech recognition market growing.
• Wizzard announces 2006 financial results.

Questions of the day:

• Web X.0 IEEE workshop. What role will NLP play?
• Are GPS navigation systems driving the TTS market (links randomly chosen from recent navigation system releases)?

On the WWW today:

• CallMiner announces Eureka product for call center speech analytics and QA.
• Envox CT Connect 7 VXML/CTI plattform now Avaya telephony compliant
• Some blogging about the role of symbolic vs brute-force statistics in articificial intelligence, NLP, Google‘s machine translation vision.

On the WWW today:

• Speech technology key factor for 2007 CRM magazine service awards.
• PepsiAmerica s employs speech-enabled unified messaging.

On the WWW today:

• LumenVox announces 400th Asterisk PBX developer employing LumenVox ASR Engine.
• VoiceSignal announces Blackberry 8800 integration.
• Talking Technologies announce real-time speech-to-speech translation software.
• Microsoft PBX with ASR. News seems older, and subsequent of MS’s TellMe acquisition.

On the WWW today:

• Gamasutra reports Fonix earnings. Fonix ASR engine recently received attention after integration on various gaming platforms.
• Wireless Linux penguin robot features Acapela TTS.
• Genesys and Avaya make more news on the multi-modal voice service plattforms featuring video support.

Have a good weekend!