Weekly New Redux…

Okko — Tue, 22 May 2007 07:17:00 +0000

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:

Okko in Speech » LH