The Nuance of today has little to nothing in common with the post-acquisition Nuance. It's really name-only at this point. Some of their speech technology has been incorporated into the Nuance 9 engine. There are some…
Both are a problem. There is increasing evidence that eating meat causes many long term problems. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat#Health_risks) Additionally, see the news in the US in the past few days that…
Ah. That was unclear from your post. I know a few people who have gotten the Samsung Intercept on Virgin Mobile and are fairly unhappy with it. It feels really slow and the built-in apps aren't that great, according to…
For free apps, the lock in is minimal. But if someone has an investment of $100 or however much in paid apps, that's another story.
Don't forget that Apple usually sells the previous generation iPhone 8GB for cheaper. You can now get a 3GS for $50 on ATT. I still use a 3GS, and it's still a great phone.
Wasn't that Rocky IV?
MIT is doing some really interesting research into using crowd sourcing like mturk. Check it out: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/research.shtml#crowdcomp They are tackling tasks like extremely difficult OCR and…
United tried to do the same thing with it's Ted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_(airline)) subsidiary.
Speech recognition has steadily improved over the past 10 years. You can see a few examples: Android system wide speech input, Siri iPhone app (which Apple bought), Dragon Naturally Speaking advertises upwards of 99%…
I designed Airtran's telephone flight information system. I hope they keep it.... :)
Can't you have everyone sign into the same account?
The Nuance of today has little to nothing in common with the post-acquisition Nuance. It's really name-only at this point. Some of their speech technology has been incorporated into the Nuance 9 engine. There are some…
Both are a problem. There is increasing evidence that eating meat causes many long term problems. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_meat#Health_risks) Additionally, see the news in the US in the past few days that…
Ah. That was unclear from your post. I know a few people who have gotten the Samsung Intercept on Virgin Mobile and are fairly unhappy with it. It feels really slow and the built-in apps aren't that great, according to…
For free apps, the lock in is minimal. But if someone has an investment of $100 or however much in paid apps, that's another story.
Don't forget that Apple usually sells the previous generation iPhone 8GB for cheaper. You can now get a 3GS for $50 on ATT. I still use a 3GS, and it's still a great phone.
Wasn't that Rocky IV?
MIT is doing some really interesting research into using crowd sourcing like mturk. Check it out: http://groups.csail.mit.edu/uid/research.shtml#crowdcomp They are tackling tasks like extremely difficult OCR and…
United tried to do the same thing with it's Ted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_(airline)) subsidiary.
Speech recognition has steadily improved over the past 10 years. You can see a few examples: Android system wide speech input, Siri iPhone app (which Apple bought), Dragon Naturally Speaking advertises upwards of 99%…
I designed Airtran's telephone flight information system. I hope they keep it.... :)
Can't you have everyone sign into the same account?