Guest blog - About the Amazon Kindle text-to-speechfunction
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Rudy S.Posted
Tue 07 Apr 2009 11:10pm
that it will give authors
and publishers the ability to disable the text-to-speechfunction on any or all of
their e-books available for the Kindle 2.
The Reading Rights Coalition, which represents people who cannot read print, will
protest the threatened removal of the text-to-speechfunction from e-books for the
Amazon Kindle 2.
Where: Outside
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speech, speech
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Kim C.Posted
Thu 22 Jan 2009 4:01pm
To the complainers, who say the inauguration went on and on or the speech too long or not "one for the ages", I say:
I loved the speech - but I was prepared to love it & was not listening with a critic's ear. I can tell you that everyone around me was listening with rapt attention and did not seem bored or impatient in the least. As for length
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Nuance Buys MacSpeech – Speech Recognition for Apple
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Medical QuackPosted
Tue 16 Feb 2010 11:40am
word.
Is there anybody else in speech recognition today besides Nuance? The last couple of years had shown quite a number of acquisitions for the companymany in healthcare technologies and MacSpeech has already been licensing the speech technology from Nuance so it appears this makes sense today to come under the umbrella. BD
Nuance
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Beyond speech recognition to speech understanding: Podcast interview with M*Modal’s Juergen Fritsch
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David W.Posted
Wed 21 Apr 2010 1:11pm
I’ve written recently about how speech recognition can enhance physician productivity in the use of electronic health records. Meanwhile, M*Modal goes a step beyond voice recognition to what it calls “speech understanding” –the ability to transform physician dictation into a structured document. I saw a demonstration of the system and was impressed
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Speech to Speech
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Kyle BryantPosted
Wed 07 Oct 2009 9:34pm
Segalman who is the founder of a service called Speech-to-Speech (STS). STS provides communication assistants (CA's) for people with difficulty being understood by the public on the telephone. Speech-to-Speech is of relevance to the FA community because many FA patients have difficulty communicating on the telephone due to our progressive speech disability. STS
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Aphasias Speech And Language Problems Targeted For Speech Therapy
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Dorothy E Ross PhD CCC-SLP Aphasia NYCPosted
Sat 26 Dec 2009 12:00am
Posted Saturday, December 26th, 2009
Aphasia can bring about a lot of speech and language problems that are to be treated for speech therapy. The kind of speech... omit small words, like conjunctions (but, and, or) and articles (a, an, the). Due to these omissions, you may produce a “telegraph” quality of speech. Usually, your hearing
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Obama’s Back to School Speech: 5 Points for Obama’s Speech to Students
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Vanessa Van PettenPosted
Fri 04 Sep 2009 10:04pm
’s look at some points I hope he will make:
5 Points in Obama’s Speech to Students
1) Teachers are on your side.
Too often students feel teachers are against them. I hope Obama... in and encourage your kids, school and teacher friends to tune in as well and discuss what you would want your students to hear from Obama in his back to school speech.
Obama’s Back
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