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March 12, 2006
In-car conversational voice interfaces: Speak With Me and VoiceBox
I've been meaning to write about this for a while. Here are two comments about innovations in speech processing for embedded (eg. in-car) applications.
- My friend Ajay Juneja is founder of Speak With Me, a startup providing voice-based interaction with in-car information services (stereo, ipod, GPS). I got a demo of his system last year, when we drove me around in his car and we navigated his Ipod with voice. There were a few bugs back then (which Ajay tells me are now fixed) but in general the system worked pretty well. Speak With Me got a good writeup on TechCrunch a couple months ago, and Ajay says the good news keeps on coming. I'm trying to convince Ajay to give me a beta version of his Ipod voice navigator for my birthday.
- See the article in PC-Magazine entitled: IBM Strives For Superhuman Speech Tech
. To quote the article:
IBM unveiled new speech recognition technology on Tuesday that can comprehend the nuances of spoken English, translate it on the fly, and even create on-the-fly subtitles for foreign-language television programs.
VoiceBox Technologies have already implemented the new ViaVoice for in-car navigation, to control XM Satellite Radio via conversational speech.
Posted by barney at March 12, 2006 1:28 PM
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