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SECURING YOUR VOICE – VOICE BIOMETRICS ON THE RISE

SECURING YOUR VOICE – VOICE BIOMETRICS ON THE RISE

Voice biometrics and voice verification technology is getting more attention in the industry. Researchers turn voiceprints into passwords to avoid storing your actual speech anywhere. Voice authentication is increasingly used by tens of millions of people, including bank and telecom customers: you...

FUTURIST RAY KURZWEIL WANTS TO MOVE YOUR BRAIN INTO THE CLOUD

FUTURIST RAY KURZWEIL WANTS TO MOVE YOUR BRAIN INTO THE CLOUD

Here’s a way you can achieve 100% accuracy without touchtone technology by allowing the caller to speak to your IVR. It’s a mix of speech recognition and agent-assisted IVR technology. Source: google.com If you’ve ever used an interactive voice response (IVR) system – and unless you’ve been living...

Google explains how more data means better speech recognition

Will Google’s almost infinite access to data eventually give them an edge over Apple when it comes to speech recognition performance? Source GigaOM A new research paper from Google highlights the importance of big data in creating consumer-friendly services such as voice search on smartphones....

SECURING YOUR VOICE – VOICE BIOMETRICS ON THE RISE

IVRS WITHOUT FRUSTRATION: SPEECH RECOGNITION GETS THE HUMAN TOUCH

Here’s a way you can achieve 100% accuracy without touchtone technology by allowing the caller to speak to your IVR. It’s a mix of speech recognition and agent-assisted IVR technology. If you’ve ever used an interactive voice response (IVR) system – and unless you’ve been living on a desert...

Hands down the most advanced Text-to-Speech app available

VoiceDream Reader has pulled out all the stops to offer the best user experience for listening to and reading along books and a variety of other content using the latest Text-To-Speech technology. The quality of the TTS voices is highly natural, particularly the new Julie, Paul, Kate and Bridget...

An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis

An Introduction to Text-to-Speech Synthesis is a comprehensive introduction to the subject. The author treats two areas of speech synthesis: Part I of the book concerns natural language processing and the inherent problems it presents for speech synthesis; Part II focuses on digital signal...

MEET THE COMIC WHO DOESN’T SAY A WORD

At first, the laughs are, perhaps understandably, nervous. But then Lee Ridley is far from a conventional stand-up comic.   For a start, he doesn’t utter a single word on stage. Lee, who has cerebral palsy, cannot speak so he uses a text-to-speech iPad app to deliver his lines. During his...