Thursday, 9 January 2014

Nuance's future of gadgets that listen to you is fun, but frustrating

Nuance's future of gadgets that listen to you is fun, but frustrating
Jan 9th 2014, 15:27, by Josh Lowensohn

It used to be a strange idea to talk to an inanimate object, something companies like Google and Apple are making normal. Gone is the pain out of pecking away at screens and digging through pages of menus, which has been replaced by simple voice commands.
But you can't mention those two tech giants without Nuance, the voice services company. It specializes in turning what you say into text on your computer or mobile device, and sometimes it does that by sending your words to a server farm miles away. In return, it chews up what you say and spits out responses that devices can turn into actions.
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