The Atlantic Wire - While Google's courtship of Groupon
continues, the search giant announced Friday it's acquiring Phonetic
Arts, a speech synthesis firm based in Cambridge, U.K. Google aims to build
software allowing people to talk to their computers and their
computers to talk to them. The voice technology also portends big things
for mobile. Here's the tech-blog chatter on this new move:Google Is Taking Voice Technology Seriously, writes Jason Kincaid at TechCrunch:Google
has been paying a huge amount of attention to its voice recognition and
transcription technologies over the last few years ... YouTube now
includes automatic voice transcription captions for millions of videos; Android has voice recognition
integrated throughout the OS; and Google has voice search apps for other
mobile platforms, like the iPhone. But while these voice recognition
apps are getting much better, whenever they need to read something back
to you (for example, for language translation or GPS navigation) it’s
quite obvious that you’re listening to a computer. Which is where Google
is planning to start applying Phonetic Arts’ technology.
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