Okko in Speech » TuVox http://www.okkoblog.com Working with speech and language technology Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:37:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 This week: Bunnies, Trojans and the Jetsons http://www.okkoblog.com/2007/07/11/this-week-bunnies-trojans-and-the-jetsons/ http://www.okkoblog.com/2007/07/11/this-week-bunnies-trojans-and-the-jetsons/#comments Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:21:00 +0000 Okko http://okkoblog.com/blog/?p=29 There was no shortage of novel uses for speech technology this week. Avaya and the Jersey City’s Liberty Science Center announced speech-enabled exhibits, allowing customers to access information and services in the museum using their voice (and, of course, mobile devices).
Gizmo freaks should love (and everyone else should hate) this bunny, displaying speech recognition and synthesis, while also providing some unified communication capacities.
Also novel, though on a sadder note: speech is finally on the malware radar for good, as TTS trojans popped up using Microsoft’s builtin text-to-speech engine to annoy users by commenting their own malicious behavior. Call it the salt-in-wound virus. This news comes after about half a year after a MS Vista speech recognition security flaw was revealed, whereby the recognizer enables remote execution of content on a computer running speech recognition.

Traditional speech applications made some headlines this week as well: Nuance signs deal with Damovo to roll out speech apps in Ireland, forecasting €1.5m in profits over the next year. TuVox annouces hosted on-demand speech apps for VOIP access.

Lastly, here is an interesting article about the Jetsons and why speech technology hasn’t caught on as much as we have all hoped.

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