alphaWorks : Transcription Portlet Transcription Portlet is a voice portlet for transcribing telephony-based dictation. This technology makes large-vocabulary speech recognition technology available to telephony-based portal applications (portlets). It provides Java APIs through which developers can integrate transcription capabilities into a portlet application. Oh, I could certainly use one of those. Unfortunately, it requires WebSphere Voice… Read More »
Sun tackles privacy, speech recognition | CNET News.com Both parts of this announcement are very interesting. While presence awareness software from Sun is not that surprising (they already have an instant messaging server and an identity management server), I’m surprised to see them getting involved in speech recognition. Although the article doesn’t mention it, I… Read More »
Six Log: Six Apart Milestones Great news from Six Apart, the company that develops Movable Type. I’m really happy to hear that Neoteny has invested in them. I think that will prove to be a very smart move on Joi Ito’s part. Movable Type is without question the tool of choice for blogging power users.… Read More »
Norri Kageki, a staff writer for Nikkei IT Professionals interviewed me on Monday on how I use weblogs as an engineer. She asked a lot of great questions about how I use blogs personally as news sources and how I use them at work. The interview should appear in the May 27 issue. Hopefully, the… Read More »
Last night’s weblog panel at the Cal Journalism School was very cool. I talked very briefly before the session with Dan Gillmor about PhoneBlogger. Unfortunately, Donna Wentworth and Ed Felten couldn’t be there in person, so they had to join by teleconference (keeping them up until midnight on the East Coast!). If anyone in the… Read More »
The University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism is organizing another weblog panel at North Gate Hall Library on Thursday, April 10. I plan to be there, but I probably won’t try to blog it live. I will probably post some notes afterwards, though. The list of esteemed panelists includes: Dan Gillmor –… Read More »
SharpReader is my new favorite 3-pane news aggregator for Windows. NewsDesk and Syndirella just have too many undesirable quirks. SharpReader has a cleaner UI and significantly better usability. Too bad it is a .NET app, as I would like to use it on Linux, as well. However, this is the first .NET app that makes… Read More »
Bad news for my free, public SoccerPhone service, which ran as a TellMe Extension. I received the following email from TellMe today: VoiceXML Developer, Tellme has made many investments in VoiceXML over the past four years. One of these investments was in the Extensions program, with the goal of making VoiceXML a more utilized public… Read More »
I released the first version of the PhoneBlogger source code last Monday on the PhoneBlogger SourceForge project site. As with SoccerPhone, I released it under the GNU GPL. I haven’t changed much of the code since January, as I have been working on a couple other projects. I’ll probably start working on PhoneBlogger again in… Read More »
In brief: 27 Feb 2003 [dive into mark] While I’m going to try to add text transcription to PhoneBlogger, I don’t how successful it will be. In one of the items in his Feb 27 blog entry, Mark suggests that when you are audio/phone blogging, “any audio content needs to be supplemented with a simultaneous… Read More »