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  • jvon One year ago

    Hahaha… you know, a third of the way through this, I was thinking “I’m getting kind of spoiled, because this is just straight reporting on a stock and I’m bored”. I should have known better.

    • Jeff Marks One year ago

      For more about Luke Lirot, one of the nation’s most famous strip club lawyers…
      http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/10/Columns/Fighting_to_preserve_.shtml

      • Phil One year ago

        timely piece as wsj reporting this am that msft in talks to buy tellme which makes net based voice recognition blah blah blahs…

        • Howard Lindzon One year ago

          cnet broke it last night and it’s in my blog post below - beat ya :)

          • Nick Fenton One year ago

            that was a good time :)

            http://www.daytradeteam.com/dtt/day-trading-strategy/2007/03/looks-at-todays-wallstrip-stocknuance.html

            • Andy Swan One year ago

              There it is…the proof I was looking for. Voice regonition technology costs America jobs!! And yet it saves the opportunity for young enterprising sluts to “work their way through college”….

              After weighing the facts, I’m going to have to side with the right to free speech recognition.

              Seriously though—the work he is doing is good work, despite whether the majority sides with his client or against them–that’s the point of the Bill of Rights.

              • Chris LaBossiere One year ago

                Ok, that was the best ever. I actually loved the investment story here, and the entertainment value is like the whipped cream on top. Or maybe I am just thinking of whipped cream and being on top, after that piece. I hate the voice prompt telephone software, but I don’t see it going anywhere, and that voice recognition software didn’t even seem to stall trying to digest “excretory functions”

                The people we get to meet on WallStrip.

                • Howard Lindzon One year ago

                  Canadians are just so on it chris.

                  • jvon One year ago

                    Well the way this software works is you have to train it, so it would know phrases that are “common”. You may not talk about excretory functions often, but I’m guessing he does.

                    One of my earliest experiences with voice recognition software was sitting down to mess with Naturally Speaking one night after I came back from the bar. I got it all set up and everything, but there was one problem. It only understood me when I was drunk.

                    • Sleepless in Sri Lanka One year ago

                      If they’re sluts, Andy, I wonder why you’d have to pay to spend time with them? And even if they are “young enterprising sluts’, two out of three aint bad.

                      • Amy Domestico One year ago

                        I decided to give it a try and I said, “the programming for today is almost complete” and it typed “thats great lets go get a pastrami on rye and a beer”!

                        :0)
                        JK

                        • Howard Lindzon One year ago

                          No pastrami in Phoenix but my mouth is watering for Carnegie now.

                          • CoAlphaMale One year ago

                            Could go for a Corona and a Buffalo Burger here in Denver personally…

                            • Matt Lohr One year ago

                              I’ve been watching Wallstrip since February. I’ve tolerated the risqué episodes but this bit with the porn lawyer is too much for me. It is possible to be fun and quirky and culturally savvy without being salacious.

                              • Maximo Zeledon One year ago

                                The fact that you still have to train this software tells you they have a long way to go. I don’t think it is about recognition but more about optimizing the recognition engine so it can take instructions faster and utilize grammers efficiently. Is it an issue of demand? Is that why these recognition tehnology has not made the leap? Cool segment!

                                • Howard Lindzon One year ago

                                  maximio - good question.

                                  i think though we focused on dragon, the real strength lies in the corporate prompts and than the 411 info and their dictaphone bus.

                                  the upside is in the things you talk about that is still light years away based on todays needs and wants

                                  • jvon One year ago

                                    Salacious? If she’d started thumbing through the Penthouse, we’d be halfway to salacious. Maybe it’s a generational thing.

                                    • Jeff Haynie One year ago

                                      Nuance sells both speaker-dependent (you have to train it) and speaker independent (you don’t have to train it).

                                      The speaker dependent software is mainly used for desktop applications such as dictation or useless for specialized domains such as medical where the words are not in the normal dictionary of a spoken language.

                                      However, the speaker independent technology is by far the most exciting technology and probably the most prevasively deployment - in network. It’s what’s used when you call Delta airlines or UPS for shipment tracking - and used by most call centers that employ speech recognition systems. It doesn’t require training (except for the application developer to build “grammars” based on what is excepted as allowable input) and is quite natural and accurate (upwards of 98% in most cases).

                                      The problem with speech recognition is not the technology - it’s the economics. Speech recognition is very expensive to deploy. The ROI can be compelling in labor intensive replacement systems such as call centers, but is hardly something that can be ubiquitous at this time. In my opinion, this is NUAN challenge going forward.

                                      • Peter One year ago

                                        As a relatively new viewer, it was an amusing and useful coincidence to see this the other day when getting ready to interview there. Wallstrip: good and good for you.

                                        • Howard Lindzon One year ago

                                          God luck peter - cool repsonsive company from my experience

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