TextSpeak Unveils Human-Sounding Speech Synthesis Appliance
TextSpeak has released the TTS-EM-HD2, an all-inclusive voice synthesis paging and announcement product. Targeted to deploy with unified hospital communications, the stand-alone package requires only a...
View ArticleRussian Super Investor Yuri Milner on 3 Big Digital Changes
Yuri Milner, the Russian Internet investor (Facebook, Zynga and Groupon), speaking at an annual conference held by the Ukrainian billionaire Victor Pinchuk, focused on the three big “stories” in...
View ArticleNuance's Mobile Developer Program Adds 11 New Languages
Nuance Communications, Inc. has announced that its successful NDEV Mobile developer program now supports 11 additional languages for voice recognition across the Middle East, Europe and Asia,...
View ArticleAcapela TTS Lets Users Personalize Android Phones
The Acapela TTS Voices app offers 400 million Android users the opportunity to add a pleasant voice to speech-empower their Google Play apps. Voices are available in 26 languages, all are available...
View ArticleABBYY Launches Lingvo Dictionaries 3.0 with New Language Learning Tool
ABBYY, a provider of document recognition, document capture, and linguistic technologies and services, has announced the availability of Lingvo Dictionaries 3.0 for iOS, a versatile dictionary and...
View ArticleYandex Launches Own Browser for Russian Market
Yandex, the Russian search company, has just released its own branded browser for the Russian market built around a Webkit base using Chromium as a starting point. It borrows threat scanning technology...
View ArticleVoice Reader Text-to-Speech 2.5 for iOS: 32 Voices and 21 Languages
Munich-based Linguatec Language Technologies has released Voice Reader Text-to-Speech 2.5 for iOS, an update of their productivity app that reads entered text, text files, and PDF files...
View ArticleTopSoft Announces New OCR-Capable Document Camera
TopSoft, an image processing and OCR supplier, has released the 5.0 MP SnapVision Document Camera. This optical scanner and OCR software package is ideal for scanning and maintaining digital copies of...
View ArticleGovernments Begin to Build Voice Print Databases, Mostly Using Russian Tech
Seventy-one nations are investing in voice recognition databases that will allow governments to identify criminals or suspects based on brief recordings. A leader in the development of...
View ArticleNew version of Pragma Machine Translation Solution
Trident Software has upgraded its Pragma multilingual computer translation application for Word, web pages, emails and help documents . The program now supports Kazakh in...
View ArticleBBC Launches World Service Apps for Nokia Series 40 Devices
The BBC has launched a series of new apps tailored for Nokia’s Series 40 devices, allowing mobile owners to receive news updates in 11 different languages. The new apps extend the...
View ArticleGoogle Updates its Lexicographical Ngram Viewer
Since 2010, the Google Books Ngram Viewer has been used about 50 times every minute to explore how phrases have been used in books spanning the centuries, creating over 45 million graphs. Google Books...
View ArticleLinguaSys Joins Expanding Salesforce Marketing Cloud Social Insights
LinguaSys, Inc., has announced it has joined the growing Salesforce Marketing Cloud Insights ecosystem. LinguaSys Domains/Aspects for Foreign Language Content brings foreign language analytics to the...
View ArticleYandex Throws Open Global Search
Yandex, Russia’s leading search engine, has thrown open its Internal global index to international start-ups to see what people can do with it. While the service, accessible via an open and free...
View ArticleRussia's Mail.Ru to Launch Global Expansion with Online Games
Russian email-to-social networking group Mail.Ru is targeting online gamers as it prepares to launch services in foreign markets under the 'my.com' name. Mail.Ru operates two of the three...
View ArticleChinese Messaging App Gains Ground Elsewhere - NYTimes.com
WeChat, a mobile messaging application created by Tencent Holdings, China’s largest Internet company, is aggressively trying to establish itself in the expanding global market for smartphone apps....
View Article'Voice Travel Mate': the World's First Patented Travel Translation Companion...
Hong Kong-based startup Voice Link Technologies Limited has released Voice Travel Mate - ts (world's first patented) travel translation iPhone and iPad app. It works offline,...
View ArticleiFlyTek's 'YuDian' (the Chinese IVA) Available to Every Mobile Phone User in...
Chinese company iFlyTek. is hardly a household name in its domestic market. But it has a vice-like grip on over 80 percent of the speech technology market in the People’s Republic,...
View ArticleIVA App Race Heats Up: Speaktoit Adds New Features, Hits 5M Users
Speaktoit, the intelligent virtual assistant app, has announced new features, Among Speaktoit’s new features is a the option for users to get a “daily briefing” each morning in the form of a...
View ArticleABBYY Creates Scanning App For iPhone
ABBYY FineScanner is a new iPhone app that can scan images, written or printed documents and create high-quality electronic copies in PDF or JPEG. Scannable documents include receipts, magazine...
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