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In-car speech rec can improve auto safety somewhat, but is not a panacea
July 23, 2008
New Study Proves Safety Benefits from Speech Recognition Use in Automobiles | nuance.com
Automotive / in-car speech recognition can only help with less than 10% of the activities that people perform in-vehicle. These activities involved with roughly 22% of traffic incidents. While flawed, Nuance's study illustrates some benefit to mobile speech recognition.
Mobile speech recognition is a hot market, but here are the challenges.
July 9, 2008
VIDEO: Vlingo elbows for room on speech-recognition field | www.rcrnews.com
Many companies are now in the mobile speech recognition market, and it's a hot new technology, but it's not clear yet that consumers will find it useful. In addition, it's unclear how companies will make money in the mobile space.
A speech recognition mini-primer
July 9, 2008
Google Tests Maps with Voice | www.speechtechmag.com
There are several types of speech recognition technology. It's important to know the differences between them.
Nuance sues Vlingo: trouble ahead?
July 1, 2008
Legal Strategy | www.boston.com
Nuance has just sued a startup (Vlingo) founded by one of it's own founders. While Nuance has instigated a number of patent-infringement lawsuits over the years, they have never won a case. In combination with Nuance's history of acquisitions and lack of strong innovation, this could mean that Nuance is ripe to lose market share in the speech recognition markets.
Switzerland sues Google over Street View privacy concerns
November 13, 2009
Here Come the Droids! A brief review of Verizon Wireless' new Droid line-up.
November 11, 2009
October 30, 2009
Vodafone Orange Iphone Deal Ends Two Years Exclusivity Of O2 In UK
October 5, 2009
IPhone Coma Mode puts Apple in the ICU
September 19, 2009