You know Amazon's Kindle has arrived as a consumer electronics product -- and pop culture talking-point -- when Stephen King makes the electronic book reader a major character in one of his forthcoming works. King was on stage at New York's Morgan Library on Monday when Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos turned ...
Ford got into the act at the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show held in Las Vegas with the debut of the next-generation of Sync, its voice-activated, in-car technology. Alan Mulally, chief executive officer at Ford, presented new features for the current version of Sync and described upcoming changes se...
Cepstral, a speech technology company, has decided to open its Media Resource Control Protocol library to the developer community. The move is designed to free telephony application developers from the protocol grindstone and lead to greater inroads in software innovation, Cepstral's CEO said. The m...
The movement to Internet protocol-based phone systems and contact centers is in full swing. This is great news for smaller businesses, since standards-based IP networks offer far more flexibility and capabilities for much lower costs than their TDM predecessors. As a bonus, the protocol that runs th...
Hewlett-Packard is taking a new approach to smartphones with the launch of a slim new handset with 3G Internet connectivity, moving away from the clunky styling of its previous series of powerful PDA phones. The iPaq 500 smartphone, unveiled this week at the 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona, wi...
They are the bane of many consumers' existence, but the boon to many corporate executives' business plans: Speech recognition systems can make consumers' blood boil as they unsuccessfully try to respond to prompts, such as "Enter your account number," but the technology can also help executives redu...
The open-source KDE Project announced yesterday the release of its K Desktop Environment 3.4. The latest release, which has been in development for more than a year, includes accessibility features the organization says will be a boon for partially sighted and speech-impaired users. KDE 3.4 includes...
After a slight slip of the tongue associated with disclosure of its plans and program for speech-command software, Microsoft has confirmed it will release the new software for Pocket PC handhelds and phones on Monday. Information about the new Voice Command software -- which will allow users to verb...
Touting hands-free capabilities -- including voice recognition and audio playback of text documents -- Toshiba has rolled out its newest Pocket PCs, the e400 and e800 series. The Japanese company's e800 series also now include voice over Internet protocol (VoIP) functionality. Toshiba said the newes...
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