Today, on the second day of the SpeechTek conference, Nuance announced its acquisition of BeVocal (see press release here).

Though some see this acquisition as a big thumbs up from the speech recognition juggernaut, I see another finger being raised to its existing hosting partners.  read more »

My "speech article" seeking 'bots didn't even catch the press release announcing that Kirusa has acquired the intellectual property assets of HeyAnita. It is a fact, though. As usual, the financial terms are undisclosed. Oh well, another one bites the dust... just when the notion of a speech enabled portal is gaining legs again.  read more »

Most technology marketing people I know love lots of data.  Most are engineers by training, so they’ve been taught to crave it.  I’m an engineer too, but somewhere along my career journey I stepped out of bounds.  I still crave data.  I just don’t trust most of it anymore.  Especially marketing data.  read more »