• 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.

• 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)?