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This is an early video of VocalIQ's system (2010) for people interested: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NwuqjUZalU
Oh man, this is really impressive. I'm usually incredulous of applied NLP but this seems to have fantastic possibilities so close to implementation, it just needs a hip little web app wrapper. I hear gradients are in.
This is also an interesting and a much more recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX4wlMQAK8o

>Blaise Thomson speaking at Playfair Capital's Machine Intelligence 2015 in London.

>Blaise is co-founder and CEO of VocalIQ, the world’s first self-learning dialogue API, putting real, natural conversation between people and their devices.

Why didn't Google buy them first ? does Google has something similar , externally or in research ?
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