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Paris Hilton and speech recognition
Submitted by Matt Chambers on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 12:07.
linked below is an article discussing what is supposedly the 10th anniversary of continuous speech recognition software: http://www.livescience.com/technology/070716_speech_recognition.html |
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I couldn't resist clicking
I couldn't resist clicking -- mainly because I know you to be a stand-up kind of guy
Wonder if anyone else picked up this tidbit:
"IBM ViaVoice was also once a competitor of Dragon, but IBM has licensed the software to Nuance, which uses it as an entry-level product."
Bruce
Made you look! And you can
Made you look!
And you can confirm for others that Paris Hilton is mentioned in the article.
BruceCyr wrote: Wonder if
Wonder if anyone else picked up this tidbit:
"IBM ViaVoice was also once a competitor of Dragon, but IBM has licensed the software to Nuance, which uses it as an entry-level product."
Of course I did, but I decided not to comment for fear of starting another war!
Just for the record, ViaVoice is not merely an " entry-level product", as I feel I have proved over and over again.
Quentin
There is one comment I'd
There is one comment I'd like to make about this article. I believe this paragraph is incorrect:
"ScanSoft Inc. bought the Dragon SR technology at a bankruptcy auction in late 2001 and has continued development through three upgrades since then, meanwhile changing its name to Nuance Communications."
What Lamont Wood reports isn't quite what I remember. I remember that an existing company named Nuance merged with an existing company named Scansoft and the resulting company was named Nuance Communications. As Nuance was an already working rival SR company, I have an idea they had a large contribution of research to help the current product be what it is and had a large role in the improvements that got it there.
Articles supporting my memory:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/10/scansoft_nuance_merger/
http://www.nuance.com/news/pressreleases/2005/20050915_closemerger.asp
http://www.thestreet.com/tech/telecom/10222541.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1815781,00.asp
Skip
P.S. Paris Hilton is only mentioned in that her recent incarceration was in line with an alleged anniversary for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I'm still just not sure why anyone cares what she does. I really don't want to track her movements and wish they'd leave it off the news.
admin wrote: There is one
There is one comment I'd like to make about this article. I believe this paragraph is incorrect:
"ScanSoft Inc. bought the Dragon SR technology at a bankruptcy auction in late 2001 and has continued development through three upgrades since then, meanwhile changing its name to Nuance Communications."
What Lamont Wood reports isn't quite what I remember. I remember that an existing company named Nuance merged with an existing company named Scansoft and the resulting company was named Nuance Communications. As Nuance was an already working rival SR company, I have an idea they had a large contribution of research to help the current product be what it is and had a large role in the improvements that got it there.
Articles supporting my memory:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/05/10/scansoft_nuance_merger/
http://www.nuance.com/news/pressreleases/2005/20050915_closemerger.asp
http://www.thestreet.com/tech/telecom/10222541.html
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1815781,00.asp
Skip
P.S. Paris Hilton is only mentioned in that her recent incarceration was in line with an alleged anniversary for Dragon NaturallySpeaking. I'm still just not sure why anyone cares what she does. I really don't want to track her movements and wish they'd leave it off the news.
Actually, the details of the merger goes something like this. Nuance was hemorrhaging financially at a rate at which it was unlikely to survive another year without declaring bankruptcy. ScanSoft on the other hand was profitable and with the acquisition of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking assets ended up with the majority of market share in both general dictation speech recognition, for which Nuance had no real competitive product, as well as their imaging software (OmniPage, PaperPort, etc.). However, Nuance had a very large corpus of speech data that would double the corpus of speech data possessed by ScanSoft resulting from the acquisition of the Dragon NaturallySpeaking assets. In addition, Nuance had market share and some significant software in the call center attendant and related speech recognition market. Together, it was decided by both companies that there would be a mutual benefit to merging, both to save Nuance from bankruptcy and provide ScanSoft with a significant corpus of speech data as well is other non-dictation related speech recognition technologies. At the same time, Nuance would benefit from the ability to incorporate some of the L&H technologies that came with the acquisition of DNS, such as RealSpeak TTS, etc.
What was decided was that ScanSoft would still be the parent company, but the name would be changed to Nuance. Therefore, Nuance is really ScanSoft at its core, but the merger resulted in the infusion of technologies on both sides that ended up being greater than the sum of the parts. Nevertheless, the current company "Nuance" is still primarily ScanSoft, and Paul Ricci, CEO of ScanSoft, is still the CEO of Nuance.
Chuck Runquist
Former Dragon NaturallySpeaking SDK & Senior Technical Solutions PM for DNS
As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand. - Josh Billings (1818-1885)
The article also notes that
The article also notes that Nuance/ScanSoft sales have grown at a 30% rate since the introduction of DNS 8. While they do not break out rates for individual product lines, its logical that the growth has been due more to SR than OR and Nuance's other business lines. If so, that rate of growth might reflect largely former ViaVoice users transitioning to DNS. That wave ought to be crashing about now, so it will be interesting to see if Nuance can maintain that growth rate.
Bruce
BTW, I wonder if Paris Hilton can type? Its probably not in her skill set, so she could be a candidate for a celebrity endorsement of DNS!