Tag archive: speech

If any of you tech savvy readers are looking for a gig, Stephen Hawking is apparently in the market for a right-hand man/woman. The Stephen Hawking website posted a job opening last Thursday for a Technical Assistant.  The famous British theoretical physicist and cosmologist is well-known to us lay folk through his series of popular science books like A Brief History of Time and The Universe in a Nutshell. The 69-year-old Hawking is also… Read More

Of the most important features in a mobile device, a solid battery life remains key. Luckily for us all, researches in South Korea have reportedly discovered a new way to recharge cell phones using nothing more than the power of the human voice. That's right, talking — how convenient! According to the Telegraph, engineers at Sungkyunkwan University in Seoul, South Korea, have developed a new type of battery that's capable of… Read More

Yesterday afternoon, Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak spoke to Michigan State University graduates as he received an honorary doctorate of engineering from MSU for his many accomplishments in the personal computing industry. However, toward the end of his mostly positive commencement speech, he warned graduates that the computers he's helped create will soon make us irrelevant as a species. “Every time we invent a computer to do… Read More

While speaking at an event in Bristol, England celebrating Wikipedia's 10th anniversary, founder Jimmy Wales decided to speak out against the concept of app stores on computers and cell phones, reports Tech.Blorge. Wales claimed that stores like the iTunes App Store can become a “choke point that is very dangerous” and that the app store model may be ” a threat to a diverse and open ecosystem,” adding that “we… Read More

Satoru Iwata, Nintendo's chief executive, will keynot the 2011 Game Developer's Conference on March 2. His speech will be titled “Video Games Turn 25: A Historical Perspective and Vision for the Future” and will focus on how developers can use successes from the past to help with future game development. This year marks the 25th anniversary of GDC. Nintendo's Mario also celebrated his 25th anniversary this holiday… Read More

IBM has unveiled Embedded ViaVoice 4.4, which offers freeform command recognition, on-the-fly translation and subtitling services, and can claim to comprehend some nuances of spoken English. The technology is designed to enable users to control systems embedded in vehicles, handheld devices, and other non-computer applications to speak flexibly and naturally to devices without having to memorize and carefully pronounced pre-defined… Read More

In a speech at the wireless communications industry's biggest trade show in Cannes, France, Intel Chief Operating Officer Paul Otellini intends to spell out the No. 1 chipmaker's plans to drive its ever lower-cost semiconductors into wireless markets. “To think that phones are not subject to the laws of silicon is naive. They are just small computers,” Otellini told Reuters in an interview ahead of his speech at the… Read More

Together, the products constitute a comprehensive speech platform for companies interested in developing, testing, deploying and managing Web-based speech-enabled telephony and multimodalapplications. These speech applications can improve employee productivity, increase customer satisfaction, create new revenue opportunities, and reduce costs by consolidating Web and call-centerinfrastructures. “Our goal is to make speech technology more… Read More

The new Variable-Rate Multi-Mode Wideband speech codec (VMR-WB) offers superior wideband speech quality at data rates comparable to current narrowband speech codecs, resulting in highly intelligibleand natural speech that represents a quantum leap over the quality of both today's wireless and wireline networks.   The VMR-WB standard is not only fully compliant with the CDMA2000 rate-set IIbut is also interoperable with the AMR-WB… Read More